OK, this is cool:
http://www.openrailwaymap.org/?lang=enlat=40.5lon=-73zoom=8style=maxspeed
It's USA's Northeast Corridor (rail infrastructure) colored with
maxspeed tags. BTW, if you toggle from Maxspeed (style radio button)
to Infrastructure, you'll see the NEC as orange mainline only in
those few segments where we either don't know that the rail is truly
high-speed (=160 kph) or we do know it to be not high-speed, and a
maxspeed= tag isn't yet entered. So now, most of the NEC (where
maxspeed=160) displays as a vivid red using Infrastructure, the
USA's only high-speed rail corridor.
(Serge might even like this, it Resolves lengthy Comments at
http://www.osm.org/changeset/29723896 ).
Yes, I'm still cheerleading, still generating interest in better
USA rail infrastructure, still using various OSM wiki pages to do so,
because all of these work. I hope it's not too strong to say I
consider rail infrastructure improvement as a rough proxy for USA OSM
enthusiasm (and our ability to generate it, partly by talk-us posts,
partly by OSM missives and partly by wiki pages). But it would be
nice if one person here said I read Steve's 'rail ra-ra' posts on
talk-us, and look at all that enthusiasm and great data entry he
encourages! This is a fifty-state effort, and we can't just hear
crickets chirping all the time, you know.
You could also tell me to just tone it down here, too. While you
might accuse me of fishing for compliments, that's not the primary
reason I posted this. Part of it is better grass-roots enthusiasm
generation (and perhaps how talk-us either does or doesn't fit into
that). I'm in listening mode now.
Respectfully,
SteveA
California
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