Openrailwaymap

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ORM not updated
by Eckhard M 13 Apr '25

13 Apr '25

Hi everyone, it seems that OpenRailwayMap isn't updating again. Perhaps someone could check this. Thank you! Best, Eckhard (EM311)

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Tagging Signal Boxes
by Eckhard M 13 Mar '25

13 Mar '25

Dear all, I am not happy how we are tagging signal boxes today. The rules say that we fill the tag "name" with the name of the signal box and the reference (eg "Zossen Zo" or "Weinheim ESTW-Z"). That makes that on the "normal" OpenStreetMap this is shown on the building. The normal OSM user can't understand what kind of building that is. Nobody outside the railway community understands these acronyms. My proposal is not to use the tag "name" for ORM anymore. Let's use the "ref" tag only or use different tags that are not used in OpenStreetMap. So we can use the tag "name" for something like "signal box" or "Stellwerk" that will be shown in OpenStreetMap and is commonly understandable. I already proposed that here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/DE_talk:OpenRailwayMap/Tagging#Stellwer… What do you think? Best regards Eckhard (EM311)

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OpenRailwayMap-vector announcement
by openrailwaymap＠hiddewieringa.nl 12 Mar '25

12 Mar '25

Below is a copy of the announcement I made on the OpenStreetMap community forum: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/openrailwaymap-vector-announcement/12… --- Hello fellow mappers, Hereby I announce [*OpenRailwayMap-vector*](https://github.com/hiddewie/OpenRailwayMap-vector), a reimplementation of OpenRailwayMap using vector tiles. There was already discussion about the future of OpenRailwayMap in https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/future-of-openrailwaymap/126325 and this post is the expanded announcement. Over the past years I have had a wish to expand the existing OpenRailwayMap with more features, specifically Dutch railway signalling. The signalling data is available in OpenStreetMap, but was not visualized on the map. However, multiple pull requests with these features and some technical improvement remained unanswered. (This is in no way criticism upon the maintainers of OpenRailwayMap, I understand we are all persons maintaining and contributing to the OpenStreetMap community in our free time.) I decided to fork the OpenRailwayMap project, and start implementing the needed changes to visualize the Dutch railway signalling on the map. In addition to the features, I wanted to experiment what is possible with vector-based rendering of the data. This changes the [technology stack of the map](https://github.com/hiddewie/OpenRailwayMap-vector#architecture) significantly, because the software between the database and the user was replaced with other software. Mapnik and CartoCSS were replaced with Martin and a MapLibre *style specification*. The frontend is no longer a slippy map displaying images, but rather a rich library visualizing the vector data using the given style. After porting the existing style verbatim to the vector-based technology, more became possible in terms of development and user experience. It is easy to add signalling symbols and train protection symbols on the map. The style is decoupled from the data, allowing rendering improvements without changing the data in the database. The visualized data has been expanded by railway signalling in The Netherlands, Germany, France, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Belgium, Finland, Spain, Luxembourg and Sweden. Train protection systems that are documented and mapped all over the world are now rendered. A big shoutout to the railway mapping community in Poland, France, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and Austria for creating a great amount of well-tagged data. During this work the wiki has been expanded for certain well-tagged but undocumented data. Official sources where OpenStreetMap tagging is derived from are also added to the wiki. The user interface has improvements from using vector tiles. Instead of plain images for each tile, the features on the map are interactive, allowing highlighting and popups with details of the features. The legend is dynamic, listing the features for the current zoom level in the selected style. Much more is possible, for example filtering, grouping and selection of features and dynamically configuring a combination of visualized features, but it still has to be built into the map. The [data on the map](https://openrailwaymap.fly.dev/) is updated daily, and deployed for Europe and North America. The railway data of the entire planet is imported, but I currently do not have access to the server resources to render tiles for the entire planet in a timely manner. The deployment is currently set up as a "dance" between Github Actions and Fly\.io to update, build and deploy the tiles. This is work in progress to get the entire planet tiles updated and deployed daily. There have already been multiple contributions to this project. This is incredible and much appreciated! [Contributions](https://github.com/hiddewie/OpenRailwayMap-vector/blob/maste… in the form of issues, discussions, ideas, code or reviews are welcome! The project is not finished and will probably never be. Making small changes, improvements and trying to find the limits of the OpenStreetMap data, database and visualization tools is what makes this project so much fun. All this would not be possible without the original work on OpenRailwayMap by all the original contributors. Huge thanks and credits to those who created and maintained this beautiful work. I would love to contribute the work back into the upstream project. Kind regards, Hidde Wieringa

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DB nutzt openrailwaymap
by Rainer 16 Feb '25

16 Feb '25

Hallo, dass die openrailwaymap auch bei der DB genutzt wird, ist ja nicht ganz unbekannt. In diesem Video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VZIOnp4B5A&t=990s> sieht man die Nutzung der openrailwaymap, ab 16:30 und besser noch ab 17:10. some of us know that the openrailwaymap is being used at the DB (German Railways). In this video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VZIOnp4B5A&t=990s> one can observe the usage of openrailwaymap, starting at 16:30 and better at 17:10. schönen Sonntag noch have a nice sunday, Rainer

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New train protection tagging
by Bernhard Kölbl 13 Oct '24

13 Oct '24

Hello everyone, I'm planning to get the new train protection tagging scheme into the RFC state, towards the end of this year. So I'd like everyone who still has an opinion on the draft to state it on the discussions page here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposal:Railway:train_protection Thanks

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"Museumsbahn" / Preserved Track
by Eckhard M 21 Aug '24

21 Aug '24

Hi all, which tags are needed to render a railway as a preserved track ( "Museumsbahn") ? Or what is the best way to show a draisine track in OpenRailwayMap? For instance https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/33651730 is not shown in ORM and I wonder why. Best, Eckhard

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Signaling layer not refreshed for weeks
by Axel Zöllich 03 Aug '24

03 Aug '24

Would someone like to make an effort? Gruß Axel

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Re: Elektrische Streckentrennung
by Bernhard Kölbl 16 Mar '24

16 Mar '24

Hallo zusammen, > Ich würde den Vorschlag von Björn so anpassen: > railway=signal > railway:signal:electricity=DE-ESO:streckentrennung > railway:signal:electricity:form=sign > railway:signal:electricity:type=begin/end_of_isolated_overlap Ich würde diesen Vorschlag befürworten, wäre es irgendwie möglich das ins Wiki zu übernehmen? LG Bernhard

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Mechanical Edit: Merge of DB Netz AG and DB Station&Service AG to DB InfraGO AG
by Michael Reichert 07 Dec '23

07 Dec '23

Hi, as of 1 January 2024, DB Netz AG and DB Station&Service AG will merge and renamed to DB InfraGO AG. This requires an update to lots of operator=* tags including operator:wikidata=*, and some owner=* tags. The mechanical edit will also remove existing operator:wikipedia=* from the modified objects. The mechanical edit affects mainly Germany, but some infrastructure is located in Switzerland, Belgium and Czech Republic. That's why I post at this mailing list at all. You can find the documentation at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Automated_Edits/Nakaner-repair/DB_Infra… The German discussion is at https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/106789 Best regards Michael

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Train protection system naming inconsitencies
by 1993matiaslq＠gmail.com 26 Nov '23

26 Nov '23

Hello, I have started to improve the data on the Danish railway network. Despite some initial troubles and mistakes, I have begun to do some good progress. Unfortunately, I have reached an issue with train protection systems. It is defined that the Danish train protection system should be tagged as ZUB123 (the technical name), not ATC (the common name). What confuses me is that Sweden tags their system ATC (the common name) rather than Ebicab700 (the technical name). Why is there this inconsistency? And why has it not been resolved since the last discussion about it two years ago? Is there anything I can do to help the change, or is it a lost cause now? Also, where is the best place to talk about OpenRailwayMap? The OpenStreetMap Discord channel for OpenRailwayMap is not that active, mailing lists here seem dead, what else...? Thanks, Matias

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