According to the wiki page, railway=halt is mainly used for "A small station, may not have a platform, trains may only stop on request." The presence of points/switches is only significant in Germany.
I would recommend reverting to railway=station for any which have platforms and are regularly scheduled places for the train to stop. -Joseph Eisenberg On 1/8/20, Clay Smalley <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Over the last few months, I've been doing some systematic improvements to > the passenger railway network across North America. Much of this has been > filling out public_transport=stop_area relations for every railway station, > including stop positions and platforms, as well as verifying the geometry > of the underlying railways and classifying them (usage=*, service=*). My > goal here is to prepare the map such that route relations can be more > meaningful and accurately describe which track each train uses. > > In the course of doing this, I got a tap on the shoulder [1] and found out > I was using a definition of railway=halt that may not match up with what > people were expecting. As far as I know now, railway=station was originally > intended for stations where trains are always scheduled to stop, and > railway=halt for flag stops (aka request stops). In the German OSM > community, there was a decision made for railway=halt to be used on > stations that are missing switches, which means trains cannot switch > tracks, terminate or reverse direction there—a distinction more relevant to > railway operations and scheduling. Naturally, there are quite a lot more of > these than flag stops. > > I'm in a predicament here. So far, I've mapped all Amtrak stations and > various commuter rail stations across the Northeast according to the > no-switches definition of halt. I'm happy to revert these back to stations > (wherever they aren't flag stops), though I'd like to hear others' thoughts > before going through with that. > > -Clay > > [1] https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/77959450 > _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
