Am 03.08.2017 um 22:59 schrieb Michael Reichert:

Hi,

people are currently discussing a pull request of OSM Carto style which would add rendering of the name=* tags of railway tracks and modify the labelling of platforms.

Note: The discussion contains lots of large images, don't open it on a mobile device. https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/pull/2687

I already commented on the pull request and I am not in favour of rendering anything except of platform ref=* tags. Anything else clutters the map and might highlight names in European countries which are known by railway staff and fans but not by the general public.

In my experience, Euroean railway line names ("Rheintalbahn", "Elztalbahn", etc) are typically well-known locally. Street names are rendered. Compared to the number of streets, teh number of railways is small, so they wouldn't contribute much to clutter.

Philipp