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Render `railway=yard`

Open marioxcc opened this issue 1 year ago • 1 comments

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.

marioxcc avatar Jul 25 '23 02:07 marioxcc

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?

dch0ph avatar Oct 17 '23 17:10 dch0ph