--- Cross posted from Talk West Midlands
On 1 Jul 2009, at 19:39, Brian Prangle wrote:
Hi everyone
I've added a railway relation for the West Coast Mainline as it
runs thoruh New Street - so far I've got as far from Rugby Junction
to Sandwell & Dudley station. I've named it as Strategic Route 17
Primary- SRs are what Network Rail use to label their network. The
West Midlands is Route 17. The problem is ALL the railway tracks in
the WM are Route 17 and are differentiated into primary, secondary,
rural and freight - so I'm not too sure how to proceed in
classification afte I've competed the WCML through to Wolverhampton.
I've done this mainly to see the rail routes renderd in the
opnvkarte public transport map. Relation No is 164889 Tagging is as
follows
<tag k="name" v="Railway Route 17 primary"/>
<tag k="operator" v="Network Rail"/>
<tag k="route" v="railway"/>
<tag k="strategic_route" v="Route 17"/>
<tag k="strategic_route_status" v="primary"/>
<tag k="type" v="route"/>
You can see the full document from Network Rail at :
http://www.networkrail.co.uk/browse documents/StrategicBusinessPlan/
RoutePlans/2007/R17 - West Mids
ITO also have someone working on this nationally and he has a useful
wiki on his OSM user page at:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:JossSmithson/UK_railways
We were about to move this article to the main wiki at a new URL and
ask for community help completing it so thanks for making a start!
When it is more populated I suggest that we replace the current UK
railway article with it.
In order to stop the relations getting too big for the very long rail
routes should the ways be first aggregated into SRS sections and then
these relations be grouped into a relation for the whole route? Fyi,
there are articles on Wikipedia with SRS details for some, but not all
routes. To be super safe about copyright of sources in OSM I suggest
that we first add the SRS details into Wikipedia (referenced back to
Network Rail) and then build the OSM data from Wikipedia.
The rail route tables in Wikipedia is here. Red links need to be
created!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Rail#Route_plans
Regards,
Peter
Anyone else want to help? I think the first task is to agree
probably via talktransit on how we should tag the relations for
Route 17and maybe use that as a template. I've not added ref=17 yet
but that's trivial to implement, if we agree that's how we want to
go. For instance Route 17 covers the physical infrastructure but how
do we ( do we want to?) add relations for the passenger operators
( e.g Virgin and London Midland (and the new operator from
Shrewsbury) as they run services over the same tracks just like bus
operators on roads. Can the folks at opnvkarte ( who have the
luxury of just DeutscheBahn running trains in Germany) cope with
multiple operators?
btw route 17 not rendered yet on opnvkarte
Also railway platforms are now rendered so here's your chance to
survey them!
Regards
Brian
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