Hi,
in the past weeks and months, I rewrote the API which is used by the
OpenRailwayMap website to search stations by name or reference, and for
mileage (that's broken in the current API).
Main changes to the API are:
- All queries are fast.
- Searching stations by name makes use of the ranking used for map
rendering. The ranking is based on route relations with stop or
platform members at that station.
- Disused, abandoned, razed, proposed stations and stations under
construction (applies to halts, junctions etc. as well) are supported.
- Search by name includes all languages.
- Search by railway line and mileage works again.
- Network length API removed because these queries are either slow or
require pre-processing.
Query examples:
https://api.openrailwaymap.org/v2/facility?name=Karlsruhe to search for
stations whose name contains the word "Karlsruhe"
https://api.openrailwaymap.org/v2/facility?ref=RK to search by the
reference code of the infrastructure operator (RK is the code for
Karlsruhe Hbf).
https://api.openrailwaymap.org/v2/facility?uic_ref=<UIC ref> to search
by UIC reference code
https://api.openrailwaymap.org/v2/facility?q=<string> to search by name,
railway:ref and UIC number. Duplicates will be remove from the result list.
https://api.openrailwaymap.org/v2/milestone?ref=2134&position=24.6 to
search milestones near km 24.6 on railway tracks with ref=2134.
Both endpoints support limit=<number> to change how many results are
returned.
Please feel free to point out any issues, you find. Bugs are tracked in
the GitHub repository of the API at
https://github.com/OpenRailwayMap/OpenRailwayMap-api
Best regards
Michael