Am 02.04.2015 um 04:50 schrieb Roland Hieber:
I vote in favour for this idea to avoid a German viewpoint, and would like to rename railway:station_category to railway:station_category:de for this case. railway:station_category and railway:station_importance can thus be used in parallel. For railway:station_importance, I propose something like the following explanations (but I can only give examples for Germany, sorry):
I think, we should retag, too. The problem now is, that the values combine with Deutsche Bahn category system; but perhaps any other railway company has only categories from 1 to 6 or whatever. Perhaphs something like category_range=1-7 would help (to set the margins). If not, I would favour "railway:station_category:*de*". It is a tag majorly in use in Germany, so the retagging discussion would not be too big.
*railway:station_importance=local*: ...
*railway:station_importance=regional*:...
*railway:station_importance=interregional*: ...
*railway:station_importance=international*: The station is a big hub in the national railway system and serves long-distance connections to major national or even international cities. It usually also provides access to an international airport. (Bahnhofskategorie 2-1, examples: Frankfurt Hbf, Frankfurt Flughafen, Berlin Hbf, München Hbf, Hannover Hbf) ...
- Roland
I like this system with human-readdble values. My problem is /*=international/. I understand what you mean with the description. For people that read wiki descriptions, it is quite clear. But I fear, that many people that are not such fanatic railway mappers will just read this one word in the tag value ("international") and tag any station with any international service with /railway:station_importance=international/. Suddenly, Bad Bentheim (http://osm.org/go/0GYWO2k?m=) and Encarnacion in Paraguay (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Estaci%C3%B3n_Encarnaci%C3%B3n,_vista..., there is something like international commuter service) will receive this tag, I am afraid. So, we have to find a tag for stations with international service that don't really have an international importance. or avoid the "/international/"-value. Greetings, Daniel