The one point approach works for small stations with a single entrance, but is a little misleading for large station complexes with multiple entry points. We have quite a few of these in India, where both sides are equally important like the New Delhi station: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/28.64233/77.22188

In such cases its fair to add the marker in the centroid of the area, and not on any particular side. The station building would then help the user decide which entry is most convenient.


On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 11:05 AM, Nounours77 <kuessemondtaeglich@gmail.com> wrote:
100% agree with Nzara.
Important to have ONE point for station, and the mapper can better decide where this is then an algorithm.

nounours

> Am 19.05.2016 um 07:28 schrieb Nzara <nzaraosm@gmail.com>:
>
> Hello Mauro,
>
> concerning your questions
>
>> Other question that came up was "why is it so important for that node
>> to be unconnected with the railway track?"
>>
>
>> Can someone help me to know exactly why it's better tagging a
>> "railway=station" with a node only?
>
> I prefer the passengers view of a station or halt. If we will meet "at the station" where are you expecting to find me? This is the position, I usualy use for placing the railway=station node, definitly not on a track. The track carries nodes like public_transport=stop_position. Putting 'station' on a building or even a larger area leaves it to the renderer or any other data consumer to guess the center of the station from passenges view.
>
> Cheers
> Nzara
>
>
>
>
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