Re: [Tagging] Tagging GB railway stations and track

2012-11-09 Thread Peter Hicks
On 7 November 2012 13:27, Richard Mann richard.mann.westoxf...@gmail.comwrote:

Source? Most of these things are owned by Network Rail, and it's not
 clear whether they are publicly available without strings.

 I'd love this to be available (speaking as someone who made maps of delay
 in a former life...).


The data was released a few months ago in conjunction with their real-time
datafeeds platform (http://datafeeds.networkrail.co.uk/ if anyone is
interested).  That is covered under the TCs at
http://www.networkrail.co.uk/data-feeds/terms-and-conditions/, but
separately I've also asked for explicit clarification that the static data
is under this licence and they're happy for the data to be put in to OSM.

I've also asked if they can provide a vector-based version of the INSPIRE
data they've published - FOI request is at
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/map_of_the_railway_network.  I
imagine this will be really useful to validate track layouts and fill in
any gaps.


Peter
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Re: [Tagging] Tagging GB railway stations and track

2012-11-09 Thread Peter Hicks
On 7 November 2012 13:16, Chris Hill o...@raggedred.net wrote:

Megagronk has already been adding station codes. He has a list provided by
 the ATOC and permission to use it in OSM. He has not been using your scheme
 AFAIK.


Thanks - I'll get in touch with him and bounce some ideas around.


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Re: [Tagging] Tagging GB railway stations and track

2012-11-09 Thread Peter Hicks
On 7 November 2012 13:13, Colin Smale colin.sm...@xs4all.nl wrote:

Wouldn't the route code be better in a relation? I'm sure there will be
 some bits of the network which are part of multiple routes.


Apologies, I meant relation.

One or more running lines are grouped together in to a route - it's
entirely possible for lines that run parallel (e.g. the line from Watford
Junction - Camden Junction runs parallel to the line from Rugby to Euston)
to be in completely separate routes, or for a line to change from one route
to another mid-way.

I'll mull over how to model a change between line names.

Why include the word code in the tag name for CRS (and nr_route_code)
 and not for TIPLOC and STANOX?


TIPLOC stands for Timing Point LOcation Code, so adding 'code' to the end
is technically unnecessary.  STANOX stands for Station Number, so isn't a
code per se.

However, for clarity, I'm happy to make them tiploc_code, stanox_code and
crs_code, or perhaps prefix them with something else.


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Re: [Tagging] Tagging GB railway stations and track

2012-11-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Peter Hicks wrote:
 I'm part of a group of people who are working to get a richer 
 set of metadata attached to the railway network in Great 
 Britain, specifically:
 [...]

This is a terrific idea. I've long thought that OSM would be a natural home
for a sort of Open Quail and am delighted to see it happening.

One comment:

 I've started using three tags - ref:crs_code, ref:stanox and 
 ref:tiploc for locations, and ref:nr_route_code for route codes - 
 they're attached to St Albans Abbey station and stations toward 
 Watford Junction as an example.

A few principles of OSM tagging:
* KISS
* Reusable is good
* Memorable is good

So ref:timing_point would be more reusable than ref:tiploc, given that (I
presume) other railways have timing points.

But better still: keep it _really_ simple. ref:crs_code should just be ref
on stations (and I believe this is already standard practice).
ref:nr_route_code should just be ref on lines. By analogy, we don't tag
roads with ref:dft_classified_road_network_code.

cheers
Richard





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[Tagging] Tagging GB railway stations and track

2012-11-07 Thread Peter Hicks
All,

I'm part of a group of people who are working to get a richer set of
metadata attached to the railway network in Great Britain, specifically:

  - Tagging railway stations with the three-letter CRS (computer
reservation system) codes, which is widely used by train companies and the
public to refer to stations, plus TIPLOC (TIming Point LOCation) codes -
used in timetable planning - to relevant parts of stations, and STANOX
(Station Number) codes used for train reporting

  - Adding junctions as nodes or closed ways (depending on their structure)
to existing railway lines, along with their TIPLOC and STANOX codes

  - Adding Network Rail route codes to logical groups of routes and tidying
up line names

I've started using three tags - ref:crs_code, ref:stanox and ref:tiploc for
locations, and ref:nr_route_code for route codes - they're attached to St
Albans Abbey station and stations toward Watford Junction as an example.

Does anyone have thoughts or comments on the above?  I've set up a Wiki
page at
http://wiki.openraildata.info/index.php/AddingJunctionsAndSidingsToOsm and
there's a mailing list at
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/openraildata-talk if you want to
get involved.



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Re: [Tagging] Tagging GB railway stations and track

2012-11-07 Thread Colin Smale
Wouldn't the route code be better in a relation? I'm sure there will be
some bits of the network which are part of multiple routes.

Why include the word code in the tag name for CRS (and nr_route_code)
and not for TIPLOC and STANOX?

Colin

 All,

 I'm part of a group of people who are working to get a richer set of
 metadata attached to the railway network in Great Britain, specifically:

   - Tagging railway stations with the three-letter CRS (computer
 reservation system) codes, which is widely used by train companies and the
 public to refer to stations, plus TIPLOC (TIming Point LOCation) codes -
 used in timetable planning - to relevant parts of stations, and STANOX
 (Station Number) codes used for train reporting

   - Adding junctions as nodes or closed ways (depending on their
 structure)
 to existing railway lines, along with their TIPLOC and STANOX codes

   - Adding Network Rail route codes to logical groups of routes and
 tidying
 up line names

 I've started using three tags - ref:crs_code, ref:stanox and ref:tiploc
 for
 locations, and ref:nr_route_code for route codes - they're attached to St
 Albans Abbey station and stations toward Watford Junction as an example.

 Does anyone have thoughts or comments on the above?  I've set up a Wiki
 page at
 http://wiki.openraildata.info/index.php/AddingJunctionsAndSidingsToOsm and
 there's a mailing list at
 https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/openraildata-talk if you want to
 get involved.



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Re: [Tagging] Tagging GB railway stations and track

2012-11-07 Thread Chris Hill

On 07/11/12 13:03, Peter Hicks wrote:

All,

I'm part of a group of people who are working to get a richer set of 
metadata attached to the railway network in Great Britain, specifically:


  - Tagging railway stations with the three-letter CRS (computer 
reservation system) codes, which is widely used by train companies and 
the public to refer to stations, plus TIPLOC (TIming Point LOCation) 
codes - used in timetable planning - to relevant parts of stations, 
and STANOX (Station Number) codes used for train reporting


  - Adding junctions as nodes or closed ways (depending on their 
structure) to existing railway lines, along with their TIPLOC and 
STANOX codes


  - Adding Network Rail route codes to logical groups of routes and 
tidying up line names


I've started using three tags - ref:crs_code, ref:stanox and 
ref:tiploc for locations, and ref:nr_route_code for route codes - 
they're attached to St Albans Abbey station and stations toward 
Watford Junction as an example.


Does anyone have thoughts or comments on the above?  I've set up a 
Wiki page at 
http://wiki.openraildata.info/index.php/AddingJunctionsAndSidingsToOsm and 
there's a mailing list at 
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/openraildata-talk 
https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21forum/openraildata-talk if you 
want to get involved.





Megagronk has already been adding station codes. He has a list provided 
by the ATOC and permission to use it in OSM. He has not been using your 
scheme AFAIK.


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Re: [Tagging] Tagging GB railway stations and track

2012-11-07 Thread Richard Mann
Source? Most of these things are owned by Network Rail, and it's not
clear whether they are publically available without strings.

I'd love this to be available (speaking as someone who made maps of delay
in a former life...).

Richard


On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Peter Hicks peter.hi...@poggs.co.uk wrote:

 All,

 I'm part of a group of people who are working to get a richer set of
 metadata attached to the railway network in Great Britain, specifically:

   - Tagging railway stations with the three-letter CRS (computer
 reservation system) codes, which is widely used by train companies and the
 public to refer to stations, plus TIPLOC (TIming Point LOCation) codes -
 used in timetable planning - to relevant parts of stations, and STANOX
 (Station Number) codes used for train reporting

   - Adding junctions as nodes or closed ways (depending on their
 structure) to existing railway lines, along with their TIPLOC and STANOX
 codes

   - Adding Network Rail route codes to logical groups of routes and
 tidying up line names

 I've started using three tags - ref:crs_code, ref:stanox and ref:tiploc
 for locations, and ref:nr_route_code for route codes - they're attached to
 St Albans Abbey station and stations toward Watford Junction as an example.

 Does anyone have thoughts or comments on the above?  I've set up a Wiki
 page at
 http://wiki.openraildata.info/index.php/AddingJunctionsAndSidingsToOsm and
 there's a mailing list at
 https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/openraildata-talk if you want to
 get involved.



 Peter


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