> On May 12, 2017, at 8:03 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I would use an area for the station
Unless something has changed in the last year or so, this is not possible because no good tag for it exists (and it breaks -carto) My first trouble as a new mapper in 2013 was about this, and I brought it up again in 2015. https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/1457 AFAIK The railway=station isn't treated as a landuse, so when placed on an area it acts as building=yes. You could use landuse=railway to denote the land, but that would be a landuse that doesn't differentiate between "some track" and "here is a station". Using railway=station as a landuse my be possible if we put building=no, but I assume that because -carton renderings assume it is a building, so will other data consumers and ignore the building=no tag. As with _so many_ non-business tags, there is no corresponding catch-all landuse they can go into (imo) to properly map the extent of their landuse, such a as fire stations, libraries, police stations, train stations, etc. mapping one place as an amenity= , another as a landuse=, another as a man_made=, and others with no area polygon - when _all_are just buildings sitting on a square of land is really odd, especially to a new mapper. iD hides some of this inconsistency, but it is still really bad. When there are more complex situations or micromapping, landuse=* and other area-based non-building tags is the basis for all of my mapping. Mapping a giant river needs waterway=river and =riverbank. Mapping a station needs building=station and landuse=public_transport or similar. Javbw
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