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Add preset for railway=platform_edge#1745

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Description, Motivation & Context

This PR creates a preset for platform edges, usually found at train stations. It is mostly useful when there are island platforms.

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Ref: #1641

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Relevant tag usage stats:
Almost 12k uses as of 2025-09-26
https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/railway%3Dplatform_edge

Rapid growth since the start of 2024
https://taghistory.raifer.tech/#***/railway/platform_edge

JOSM and Vespucci already have a preset for it (according to TagInfo).

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Dimitar5555 commented Sep 26, 2025

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https://pr-1745--ideditor-presets-preview.netlify.app/id/dist/?id=w996838089#disable_features=boundaries&map=20.00/42.65244/23.46977&background=Bing&id=w996838089

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  • American English

  • name, aliases (if present) use Title Case
    Should "edge" be capitalised? It looks strange to me.

  • terms (if present) use lower case, sorted A-Z

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I worry that it will be mass-added in cases where it is only unneeded clutter, but I see not way to avoid it

@matkoniecz matkoniecz changed the title Add preset for platform edge Add preset for railway=platform_edge Mar 13, 2026
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#1850 proposes to use local_ref for the local reference like platform number/stand number and ref for the network wide reference.

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k-yle commented Mar 16, 2026

#1850 proposes to use local_ref for the local reference like platform number/stand number and ref for the network wide reference.

Not anymore right? That was changed in #1850 (comment) , the PR title is inaccurate

feature tag for the local ID tag for the network-wide ID
stop_position local_ref ref
platform ref no tag
platform_edge ref

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