Changeset: 57063766
light_rail stations should be nodes
Closed by johnpercy
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Discussion
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Comment from trigpoint
Hi, I am not sure I understand why you have changed this? The wiki says stations can be mapped as areas or nodes.
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Comment from johnpercy
True for standard railway stations but the Wiki says that light rail (and subway) stations should be mapped as nodes only.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:station%3Dlight_rail
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:station%3Dsubway -
Comment from trigpoint
The wiki is intended to document how mappers map, it is not a set of instructions and should be taken with a large pinch of salt.
Mapping evolves over time and I suspect this page has not been updated yet.
Whilst an underground station would be difficult to map as an area and a node is appropriate an above ground station can easily be defined as an area and provides a better map.
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Comment from johnpercy
I understand your point but what led me to this was finding that vector maps from OpenAndroMaps derived from OpenStreetMap data were following the wiki and so not identifying light rail stations that were not nodes.
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Comment from trigpoint
I have never heard of OpenAndroMaps, but they should update to reflect improved mapping. We should not tag for the renderer which changing these stations appears to be doing.
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Comment from trigpoint
Actually I am not actually sure why a light rail would be mapped differently to any other station.
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Comment from johnpercy
On, for example, paper maps such as the UK Ordnance Survey, light rail stations are indicated differently. That's probably a valid reason to make a distinction that can be used by renderers if they so wish, IMHO.
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Comment from trigpoint
Maybe they can be different, but that is no reason to hold back improvements in mapping technique.
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Comment from johnpercy
OK, but I thought the wiki was meant to reflect the consensus
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