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Render `railway=yard`
railway=station
is rendered even when it is a freight station (railway:traffic_mode=freight
). It makes sense to render yards too. Freight trains collect freight from industries (i.e.: stations) into a nearby yards, then haul a long string of wagons between yards, then distribute it to nearby industries. Thus, yards are as important or even more than the freight stations.
For railway=station
, it is fairly obvious that it is associated with a specific location (more or less at station buildings), whereas railway=yard
seems to more of a landuse, despite the wiki describing it as a node-only tagging.
A name attached to an area landuse=railway
will already be rendered. Frankly, this would seem to be a better way of rendering something that is by definition an area.
There seems to be little harm in duplicating the name between the railway=yard
node and an enclosing landuse=railway
?