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Don't tag for the renderer

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Hey everyone, after visiting some countrys i've noticed that a lot of people misuse tags to make it look better rendered. The most common one i've encountered was the misuse of the name tag (in general), but in particular railway-related. Writing the name of the lines served at a specific station in there makes it a lot harder to change lines, also that's not really what that tag is intended for.

I would love it if more people would use OSM as an example and start using relations for lines, IMHO it's a lot easier, but maybe someone needs to copy the OSM Transport layer for that to happen, as we know that the mapping features are only used if they are rendered somewhere...

On a related note, start using railway=halt more, here in Germany every railway=station that doesn't have a switch is considered an halt, in OGF one should check placed stations if railway=halt wouldn't be a better fitting alternative.


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