Belatedly following up. I've updated the wiki
(http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Railway_stations) with my
understanding. Further changes of course welcome.
Steve
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Steve Bennett wrote:
> All of these exist in taginfo, and have at least 10 hits:
>
> railway:histor
2013/2/7 Greg Troxel :
>> better use always "building" for the building and
>> "railway=station" for the station (function)
>
> I'm sympathetic to that, but what tag goes on the building way other
> than building=yes to denote that a building is a station building? Or
> was?
currently there are
Martin Koppenhoefer writes:
> 2013/2/7 Greg Troxel :
>> ... because in the present, railway=station means the
>> site and we don't really denote the building. In the historic:,
>> railway=station is the building and railway=station_site is the place.
>
>
> -1, better use always "building" for t
2013/2/7 Greg Troxel :
> ... because in the present, railway=station means the
> site and we don't really denote the building. In the historic:,
> railway=station is the building and railway=station_site is the place.
-1, better use always "building" for the building and
"railway=station" for th
Steve Bennett writes:
> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 9:28 PM, Jonathan Bennett
> wrote:
>> There was this discussion on talk-gb recently:
>>
>> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2013-January/014376.html
>
> Yeah, that's actually what prompted this discussion - I was pointed
> there by
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 9:28 PM, Jonathan Bennett wrote:
> There was this discussion on talk-gb recently:
>
> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2013-January/014376.html
Yeah, that's actually what prompted this discussion - I was pointed
there by Andy Allan when I commented on some O
On 06/02/2013 00:50, Greg Troxel wrote:
> (I
> am also curious if a British railroad geek could explain if the OSM
> terms seem right to the railfan community.)
There was this discussion on talk-gb recently:
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2013-January/014376.html
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Greg Troxel writes:
can mean two legally different things:
> "out of service"
> "abandoned (tracks present)"
Sorry, I didn't explain these:
"out of service" means the railroad chooses not to run trains. But
they might change their mind.
"abandonment" is a big legal step, where the
I don't know what those mean, but there are two separate concepts being
blurred:
A) There used to be a (logical) railway station at a site. This
really doesn't have anything to do with buildings. Subclasses
could be if the station is no longer in use but the railway is
active,
2013/2/6 Steve Bennett :
> All of these exist in taginfo, and have at least 10 hits:
>
> railway:historic=station_site (376)
> railway:historic=station (188)
> historic:railway=station (230)
>
> historic=station (10)
> historic=railway_station (37)
> historic=station_site (65)
>
> disused:railway=s
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