On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Frankie Roberto<[email protected]> wrote: > Fulfilling a very small niche, I've added a (very short) page for monorails > (in the UK): http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_monorails
we should build more monorails so we can map more monorails ... > The page for the tag is here: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:railway%3Dmonorail thank you, that very simple Zoofari Monorail network is a gentle introduction to Relations. > Other than the slightly different form of the track (and the fact that they > hold a certain place in our retro-sci-fi imagination), some of us hope it's not just retro ... >I haven't yet spotted > any special tagging requirements that are different from standard railways > (unlike trams). i guess we don't need to record which style of Switch is used, nor which of the vertical and horizontal wheels are idler or driven. > They do seem to be mostly single track though, often in > loops, making oneway=yes tags all the more important... I would expect the Maintenance spur on Zoofari to be two-way and the rest oneway=yes, but no oneway tags seen. If railway=monorail were defined to imply oneway=yes, the spur would be the elusive usecase for oneway=no . Otherwise, oneway=yes may belong in the hypothetical monorail preset and Useful combination section of the sidebar on http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:railway%3Dmonorail Most monorails are elevated, as they have infrastructure savings over other rigid-track elevated forms. So layer=1 should be default in a monorail preset and Useful combination. is there a variant of access=public that will indicate that the fare is inclusive with a larger amenity's admission? Should nodes that are pylons have an extra tag ? Since a gradual curve can be supported from two ends and we don't have splines, there will be non-pylon nodes in some monorails, so we can't assume each node is a pylon. Comparison to a US monorail -- I guess there's another wiki page needed -- The Disney World monorail (which is double track, counter circulating loop, one express, one local) is layer=2 with stations at layer=3 . This may be correct, as iirc they use gravitational potential for low tech regenerative braking. Each rail is also a single way all round, rather than a relation of station to station ways. One of the switches may be double-rail, as I have yet to find on OSM or YIMG WMS the connection from inner loop to outer. Something to look for when surveying in person next... http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/28696080s http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/11204977 So there is no use of relations, route, or network concepts on this imported monorail. Is there general agreement that a The Epcot monorail connects to the WDW double loop above with a dogbone loop that appears as double-way mach of its run. http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/28411444 The Express and Epcot loops have 2 stations, the Resort loop 6. None have oneway=yes, but then, TIGER imports never do. Maintenance spur http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/28696093 would be two way. -- Bill [email protected] [email protected] _______________________________________________ Talk-transit mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit
