Nothing in OSM has an inherent meaning; tags are just combinations of letters. Meaning arises in the heads of people who work with the data. If you want to do a poll, then this is the wrong forum; maybe you should randomly select a number of people who have used the tags in question and ask them what they meant with that! If you have an issue with the standard Mapnik stylesheet, then [Trac](http://trac.openstreetmap.org) is the right place to submit a change request. If you'd rather discuss the issue with fellow mappers, choose one of the mailing lists or the forum. Generally, I think that many people assume that when they draw a building instead of a POI node, they can transfer the node's tags to the building. That's probably the reason why our cartographers have decided to treat railway=station `railway=station` like a building. Maybe you could tag the wider area as `landuse=railway` (because how will you know if something is still part of the station or part of some other railway area?) and then tag the actual building as `railway=station`?

Nothing in OSM has an inherent meaning; tags are just combinations of letters. Meaning arises in the heads of people who work with the data. If you want to do a poll, then this is the wrong forum; maybe you should randomly select a number of people who have used the tags in question and ask them what they meant with that! If you have an issue with the standard Mapnik stylesheet, then [Trac](http://trac.openstreetmap.org) is the right place to submit a change request. If you'd rather discuss the issue with fellow mappers, choose one of the mailing lists or the forum. Generally, I think that many people assume that when they draw a building instead of a POI node, they can transfer the node's tags to the building. That's probably the reason why our cartographers have decided to treat railway=station like a building. Maybe you could tag the wider area as landuse=railway `landuse=railway` (because how will you know if something is still part of the station or part of some other railway area?) and then tag the actual building as railway=station? `railway=station`?

Nothing in OSM has an inherent meaning; tags are just combinations of letters. Meaning arises in the heads of people who work with the data. If you want to do a poll, then this is the wrong forum; maybe you should randomly select a number of people who have used the tags in question and ask them what they meant with that! If you have an issue with the standard Mapnik stylesheet, then [Trac](trac.openstreetmap.org) [Trac](http://trac.openstreetmap.org) is the right place to submit a change request. If you'd rather discuss the issue with fellow mappers, choose one of the mailing lists or the forum. Generally, I think that many people assume that when they draw a building instead of a POI node, they can transfer the node's tags to the building. That's probably the reason why our cartographers have decided to treat railway=station like a building. Maybe you could tag the wider area as landuse=railway (because how will you know if something is still part of the station or part of some other railway area?) and then tag the actual building as railway=station?

Nothing in OSM has an inherent meaning; tags are just combinations of letters. Meaning arises in the heads of people who work with the data. If you want to do a poll, then this is the wrong forum; maybe you should randomly select a number of people who have used the tags in question and ask them what they meant with that! If you have an issue with the standard Mapnik stylesheet, then [Trac](trac.openstreetmap.org) is the right place to submit a change request. If you'd rather discuss the issue with fellow mappers, choose one of the mailing lists or the forum. Generally, I think that many people assume that when they draw a building instead of a POI node, they can transfer the node's tags to the building. That's probably the reason why our cartographers have decided to treat railway=station like a building. Maybe you could tag the wider area as landuse=railway (because how will you know if something is still part of the station or part of some other railway area?) and then tag the actual building as railway=station?