SteveA, The authoritative source for railroad GIS data is usually considered to be BTS:
https://www.bts.gov/ When I worked at BNSF, that is what was used to initially populate the linework for our rail feature class. Class I railroads (the very large ones) are generally regulated by the Federal Railroad Administration. PUC is for telecom, electric and gas. Jay On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 8:05 AM <[email protected]> wrote: > Send Talk-us mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Talk-us digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: USPS Post Boxes (EthnicFood IsGreat) > 2. Re: Denver RTD's public_transport growth (OSM Volunteer stevea) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 18:29:23 -0400 > From: EthnicFood IsGreat <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Talk-us] USPS Post Boxes > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed > > > > Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 14:25:15 -0700 > > From: Peter Dobratz <[email protected]> > > To: [email protected] > > Cc: "[email protected] Openstreetmap" > > <[email protected]>, [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [Talk-us] USPS Post Boxes > > > > It would be good to standardize on operator tags for the 4 major carriers > > as you mentioned. The logos for DHL, FedEx, and UPS have those exact > > letters in them, so if people map what they see, then they will end up > with > > those exact values. However, as mentioned, the USPS logo actually > contains > > the text United States Postal Service. > > > > I could be convinced to switch my tagging from United States Postal > Service > > to USPS. Are there any arguments to support the short form beyond it > being > > easier to type? > > [...] > > I would like to point out there are free, little utilities like > Typertask that will quickly expand a few keystrokes into many more > letters. This can greatly speed up typing long strings like "United > States Postal Service". > > Mark > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 16:49:58 -0700 > From: OSM Volunteer stevea <[email protected]> > To: talk-us <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Denver RTD's public_transport growth > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > On Sep 2, 2018, at 9:52 PM, OSM Volunteer stevea < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > I "found something rectangular" and sketched in > http://wiki.osm.org/wiki/Colorado/Railroads which we might agree (as a > useful, communicative wiki) is "alpha-1" or so. > > Following up to my own post, (that wiki continues as "early alpha"), two > important tasks emerge: > > 1) Denver RTD's University of Colorado A Line (train) needs nodes/ways > added to OSM, tagged public_transport=platform to grow the route from > public_transport:version=1 to v2. Seeing this is a pretty > heavily-travelled passenger=suburban route=train, this shouldn't be too > difficult, and > > 2) TIGER Review of existing mainline freight rail (primarily mainline > BNSF routes Colorado Springs, Pikes Peak, Spanish Peaks and Walsenburg > Subdivisions) will need some additional authoritative data sources > (Colorado PUC?) to "untangle" them from UP lines: they have blurred so > much and are have gotten so confused that the original TIGER data are > virtually incomprehensible as they exist in OSM at present. > > Of course, keeping the wiki synced with the data in OSM is the whole > point. Then we go beta and eventually Colorado/Railroads become "a pretty > darn good set of statewide rail data, well-documented." One state at a > time, OSM rail data (from decade-old hoary TIGER data) do measurably and > demonstrably improve. > > Thanks, especially to Colorado OSMers/rail enthusiasts who have responded > so far, > > SteveA > California > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > > ------------------------------ > > End of Talk-us Digest, Vol 130, Issue 17 > **************************************** >
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