Railway=station as an area?

[gymate]

@Kovoschiz

Sorry, I need to clarify I want to use railway=station + public_transport=station for the passenger area , to follow public_transport=station in other modes . That’s already dominant Tags | OpenStreetMap Taginfo close to 75%. It’s not a good idea to separate them.

I think it is a good idea indeed. The Wiki page of railway=station says the following:

railway=station should be tagged as a node, placed at the centre of the station from the passengers’ point of view (i.e. near platforms), or as an area covering the whole station.

And the Wiki page of public_transport=station says:

A station will normally have some, but not all of the following attributes:

• Have a physical presence consisting of a building or other structure […]
• Have a number of platforms and stop positions […]
• […]
• Have amenities for waiting passengers including shops, vending machines and information services and possibly car parking […]
• […]

The station itself is mapped as an area, usually covering the outline described above […]

So railway=station should cover the whole station (from a railway infrastructure perspective), but public_transport=station should only cover the public area of the railway operating site.

@Kovoschiz

No other mode has a public_transport=station alone without the corresponding feature.

I agree, but train=yes applied on the same area as public_transport=station is could indicate that it’s a railway public transport station.