Railway=station as an area?

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@Kovoschiz

The gateline may be on one end to the sides. Then the routing centroid won’t coincide with the linearly referencing.

I think we should mainly trust our fellow mappers to find a good spot for railway operating site nodes. This has worked well for many years. (Most of them are separate nodes off the tracks.)

@Kovoschiz

This is alleviated by the availability of =subway_entrance , aside from building=train_station , which is why I doubt the necessity of advocating for such a =station label based on routing.

Unfortunately, entrance nodes can’t currently replace a well-placed railway=station node in terms of routing. Just plan a route to the railway=station multipolygon relation Budapest-Keleti using GraphHopper, OSRM or Valhalla:

None of these routing services can take station entrances into account. As a result, the suggested route is completely misleading and takes you a full kilometre away from the platforms. (The correct route would be the one I’ve marked in orange.)

@Kovoschiz

Another purpose the railway=station serves for underground stations is hinting at the position of =platform, which are usually not drawn yet. Moving it to the ticket hall removes this ability to indicate.

If you miss platforms on the map, why not draw them? I don’t think this should stop us from improving the routing and rendering of railway operating sites in general.