Proposal:Station

This is a proposal for a set of tags and members making a Relation for railway station (can be used for both rail and subway).

Currently, most rail and subway stations are marked as a point with railway=station on a track. This this implementation is lacking, mainly because most stations have more than one tracks, each likely requiring it's own railway=station point. Next, typical station consists of more than just a point on a track, namely:

• a set of tracks
• one or more platforms
• a set of bridges, tunnels or plain footways which interconnect platforms

access to those elements may be or not be restricted, depending on whether there are turnstilles you need to pass to access the station.

(Please correct me if I'm wrong here) Subway stations also require a connection between platform and track, as being marked by tunnel=yes, passability of empty space is not assumed.

That said, we need a relation to be able to group all station elements into a single entity.

Tags

Key	Value	Discussion
station	railway / subway
name	a name	Name of the station
operator	operator name	The party responsible for the station, e.g. "Network Rail"
access	free / restricted	Whether you are required to have a e.g. ticket to access the station area

Members

Way or Node	Role	Recurrence?	Discussion
	platform	one or more	platforms forming this station
	station	one or more	the node on a track likely marked with railroad=station - the place where the train actually stops on the track
	member	zero or more	any elements belonging to a station and affected by it's access

TODO

• Add more tags from railroad=*
• Add a way to link station to a platform (i.e. train which stops between two platforms may actually only take passengers from one of them and put them to another
• Add example images