Openrailwaymap July 2020

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4 discussions

Guidance to port tagging scheme to local country
by João Ferreira 19 Jul '20

19 Jul '20

Hey everyone! Hope y’all are well. I’m João Ferreira, aka HedgiePT, a (noob) mapper from Portugal. I tasked myself with kickstarting the signal scheme for all Portuguese railways, and I have a few questions that weren’t answered by the Wiki: It seems like every signal requires its own name in this scheme. How does this apply to variations of, say, speed limits? Germany gives different names to 'sign' and 'light' forms. Is this a requirement? Also, our distant speed limit signals <=40 km/h have a yellow colour, versus white for >40 km/h. Are these different names as well? Or are the names just for cataloguing purposes and aren’t all that important for rendering? It seems that, despite all this, the same name applies to all different values of a speed limit. Is this true? What’s the best way to tag potential aspects of signals? Does each signal get it’s own aspect tags, or are the generic tags enough? Is ORM accepting new signals to display in its web app? Do any of my questions mean anything to the ORM renderer? :) Thanks in advance. P.S.: I tried asking around your IRC chat but it was pretty dead. P.P.S.: I also tried sending this via my own e-mail client and it seems the original message did not arrive, so I'm sending via the web form. If it turns out to be a duplicate, I'm sorry for the spam :)

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openrailway.org Legend
by Eckhard M 07 Jul '20

07 Jul '20

Hi all, from my perspective it seems that the legend at openrailway.map is not up to date. The narrow gauge lines are in light green now but the legend shows a black dotted line. Even other types seem to be wrong. Also the localization is not working, the legend is in English all the time. Is this intended in that way? Best, Eckhard

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Self organised session at SotM about Railway tagging in the US tomorrow
by Michael Reichert 03 Jul '20

03 Jul '20

Hi, railway tagging in the US has been a large topic on the OpenRailwayMap mailing list (and partially on Talk-us) for the last couple of weeks. I think that there is still some need for further discussions and would like to invite all those who are interested in it to join a self organised session via Jitsi at the virtual State of the Map conference tomorrow at 20:00 UTC (= 22:00 CEST, 16:00 Eastern, 13:00 Pacific) Time in your time zone: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Railway+tagging+i… Jitsi room: https://jitsi.geofabrik.de/railway-tagging-us Please use Chromium or Chrome, avoid Firefox please. Best regards Michael

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Draisine tracks
by Eckhard M 03 Jul '20

03 Jul '20

Dear all, what is the right way to tag routes where is draisine traffic only. Just wondering why https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/33651736 is not shown in ORM. Best, Eckhard

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