I use name=Thompson (disused) as the map user sees immediately that the station
is no longer in use. This may not be such a drama where the track is out of
use as well, but when you map a station out of use on a running line if the
station appears just like any other station it becomes confusing. This is also
consistent with the method used by various map makers.
Nathan
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Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 09:43:18 +1000
From: Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com
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Subject: [talk-au] Historic stations and rail
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Hi all,
I've been working on some old train lines and stations, mostly
around Victoria, and have finally settled on a tagging scheme, based
on what's popular in taginfo. The current tagging has been pretty
inconsistent, with lots of variations like railway=station,
disused=yes, railway=station, name=Foo (former),
railway:historic=station, historic:railway=station,
building=station...
Thought I'd check whether anyone has any comments/disagreements:
Active stations (whether tourist, regional, commuter or freight):
railway=station
Disused/abandoned stations, with buildings present:
railway:historic=station
Abandoned, former station site, no buildings, little to see:
railway:historic=station_site
In all cases, the name of the station object should just be, eg, Thompson.
Not: Thompson (former)
Not: Thompson (disused)
Not: Thompson Railway Station
In addition, a station building may be tagged as:
building=station
(But one of the above should also be present - either on the building
polygon or not.)
Active rail (commuter, freight, regional):
railway=rail
Tourist rail
railway=preserved
Disused, but tracks still present and conceivably services could return:
railway=disused
Tracks removed, or state is pretty far gone.
railway=abandoned
Thoughts?
To see where we're at, I've done a quick replica of this well known
rail map of Victoria:
http://i.imgur.com/ohXHwsk.png
http://emscycletours.site44.com/rail.html
Steve
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Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 12:56:23 +1030
From: Brett Russell brussell...@live.com.au
To: OSM Australia mailing list talk-au@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [talk-au] Making Garmin IMG for Bushwalking - Insanity starts
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Hi
In the wonderful vague world that is OSM I am attempting to make maps for my
Garmin 62s optimized for bushwalking. I have raised this issue a few time but
not much luck but decided to be pig headed and not let this beat me as more
than a few people have become enthusiast about OSM only to become disillusion
when they actually try to use it in the bush. We have the excellent site OSM
Australia that for vehicle users generates very sensibly sized IMG for each
state. I use their routeable maps on the Garmin 62s and the 2Km minor roads
ones on my Fenix and have for a friend loaded them on his Extrex 10. But they
do not have contours. I have obtained and loaded on more than a few Garmins
the Contour Australia 5M. Then I overlay the IMG from OSM Australia but
frankly this is a clumsy solution for many people as the OSM Australian site
IMG have poor zoom level set for bushwalkers and you do not get colour coded
elevation shading.
So I have been reading up on mkgmap and struck as usual the standard array of
Wikipedia entries that go around in circles with the reader needing to make
numerous assumptions and follow links and at the end of this maze either given
up or some how figure out what needs to happen. Then I stumbled across
http://thebird.nl/tutorials/osm_garmin.html, that while for Linux, explains the
concepts so light has started to dawn.
My biggest issue is I use Telstra's mobile phone network to connect to the
internet and this means very expensive data costs. So I am rather keen
