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 t

Re: [Tagging] Tagging GB railway stations and track

2012-11-09 Thread Peter Hicks
On 7 November 2012 13:13, Colin Smale 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

Re: [Tagging] Tagging GB railway stations and track

2012-11-09 Thread Peter Hicks
On 7 November 2012 13:16, Chris Hill 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. Peter __

Re: [Tagging] Tagging GB railway stations and track

2012-11-09 Thread Peter Hicks
On 7 November 2012 13:27, Richard Mann wrote: 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 re

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 wrote: > All,

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

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 workin

[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