More Tricks

Platform Numbers

When you are catching a train it might be helpful to have your platforms clearly labelled.

Platform numbers are found in the 'ref' tag

railway=platform & ref=1

Not all platforms are correctly tagged using 'ref'

Platforms ,however, are a problem:

Some are marked as a line, some as a polygon.

Platforms with numbers

Options with line platforms:

use the ref and show them like highway symbols, the way roads are tagged

Problem

Not all platforms are lines and some Garmin devices do not show highway:symbols, like Fenix watches!

Options with polygon platforms

use the ref and add a corresponding type number then show them using

mkgmap:area2poi=true

Possible Solution

To satisfy both line and polygon platforms it might be easier to give platforms an icon in a TYP file.

Problem

You may need a lot of extra icons

To reduce the number of icons you may want to limit refs to numbers only, not numbers and letters( 1a,2b etc)

In our example 0x12C1F is used to identify platforms not 'caught in the net'.

In your points file add the following

if (railway=platform ) then
railway=platform & ref=* {set name= '$(ref)'}

ref ~'1.*' & (mkgmap:line2poi=true & mkgmap:line2poitype=mid|mkgmap:area2poi=true) [0x12C14 resolution 24 ]
ref~'2.*'& (mkgmap:line2poi=true & mkgmap:line2poitype=mid|mkgmap:area2poi=true) [0x12C15 resolution 24 ]
#etc etc

ref=* & (mkgmap:line2poi=true & mkgmap:line2poitype=mid|mkgmap:area2poi=true) [0x12C1F resolution 24 ]
end

For the ambitious

To use just numbers and allow for 29 different platform numbers you can use TYPWiz 7 to double the canvas width size for numbers 0 to 9 and have two separate icons (1 and 2) to mark the tens then combine numbers for platforms >9