1:07 p.m.
With respect to showing the operator name instead of the line name, that's
something we had extensive discussion about over the summer. We did get buy
in from a wider part of the international ORM community on the fact that we
need different labelling in North America. In short, the current labelling
(line name, not operator) is definitely correct for Europe, where this
project really began, but no one there realized at the time that we would
need something different in North America.
Michael Reichert (Nakaner in the GitHub repos) indicated he thought we
should be able to do this with a shared rendering, such that when the
renderer was working in North America it could automatically switch to
displaying the operator name instead of the line name. However, I know most
of his work that I knew of since summer had been on switching us all over
to a complete new (and better supported) rendering stack which looks to
have been pretty involved, so a lot of our work in NA over the summer was
in starting to get operator reporting marks entered in operator:short field
so we'd have something legible and useful to display.
I fell off the map myself in early September, work got really busy again
and I'm just now trying to get caught back up in OSM land myself.
Chuck
On Tue, Nov 24, 2020, 21:11 Christopher Parker <conductorchris(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
I have no answer, but I want to say that I am glad Nat that you
have
stepped forward. I like your idea.
I would suggest that "operator" is important enough that it should be part
of what shows on open street map. They seem to have decided otherwise, but
that is in error. In the US context it is critical, and showing the line
name is unimportant for the general public. I don't know if that battle is
worth fighting, but improving open railway map sure is.
Christopher
On 11/24/2020 8:30 PM, Natfoot wrote:
Hello to the group,
If I wanted to contribute to the website map and design, how do I move
forward? I had a hard time deciding from the wiki how to proceed. I did
find https://github.com/OpenRailwayMap/OpenRailwayMap this by selecting
the authors list and found the fork and pull methods. Shall I do such to
make revision changes to the viewer?
I would like to add an additional radial for railroad operator or
ownership and work through the way that looks on the site. Maybe color
code owner/operators.
I am asking to see what has changed, as some things have not been updated
in a few years. I don't want to step on anyone's toes as I move forward
with my changes and future discussions. Eg. I want to step out on the right
foot.
Best Regards,
Nat P
email: natfoot(a)gmail.com