<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px">Wouldn't it be a good idea then to give this page a decent update so everybody knows how railways should be tagged:<br><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1421088052782_9285"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1421088052782_9296"><a id="yui_3_16_0_1_1421088052782_9295" href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Belgium/Conventions/Railways">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Belgium/Conventions/Railways</a></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1421088052782_9285">Otherwise it is very well possible that someone else will 'destroy' a lot of your work.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1421088052782_9504" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1421088052782_9505" dir="ltr">Regards,</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1421088052782_9688" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1421088052782_9689" dir="ltr">StijnRR<br></div><br> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1421088052782_9200" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1421088052782_9199" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1421088052782_9198" dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1421088052782_9197" size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Ben Laenen <benlaenen@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> talk-be@openstreetmap.org <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, January 8, 2015 2:51 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [OSM-talk-be] Railway data accuracy , age and origin<br> </font> </div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1421088052782_9281" class="y_msg_container"><br>On Wednesday 07 January 2015 18:00:53 Sander Deryckere wrote:<br clear="none">> Most of the railway data comes from survey, aerial images and knowledge (no<br clear="none">> imports, apart from Urbis, Brussels).<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> The lines are usually mapped to the pair of rails (even showing the<br clear="none">> switches in most cases), and many lines have extra details s.a. gauge,<br clear="none">> voltage or maxspeed. But those are not rendered. Mapnik rendering does<br clear="none">> differ between major lines and service lines.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I'm in the process of reviewing (and for the most part redrawing) the entire <br clear="none">rail network in Flanders (to begin with, if the aerial imagery of Wallonia is <br clear="none">good enough, I may extend it a bit that way, I've done all of West-Flanders <br clear="none">and most of East-Flanders so far. It has slowed a bit since I don't have a lot <br clear="none">of free time at the moment, but I hope to continue soon. If you come across <br clear="none">some loose ends, that's where I'm at. Sources are the AGIV imagery, but I have <br clear="none">a bit more knowledge about it since I'm an actual train driver. I try to work <br clear="none">as accurate as possible, but it's a huge task (and I still have to do the <br clear="none">entire port of Antwerp, ugh)... In the process I'm also adding maxspeeds, <br clear="none">proper line refs and station/yard/junction names and codes, so you get nice <br clear="none">maps on <br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://www.openrailwaymap.org/?lang=en&lat=51.02844005602989&lon=3.49365234375&zoom=9&style=standard" target="_blank">http://www.openrailwaymap.org/?lang=enâȘ«=51.02844005602989&lon=3.49365234375&zoom=9&style=standard</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none">On that aspect, I'm currently tagging everything except the industrial line as <br clear="none">main line, and never branch line. Infrabel doesn't really make a distinction <br clear="none">there, and I feel like creating one will just be too subjective. If someone <br clear="none">has a better idea, let me know.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Greetings<br clear="none">Ben<div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yqt5436698404" id="yqtfd68249"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">Talk-be mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Talk-be@openstreetmap.org" href="mailto:Talk-be@openstreetmap.org">Talk-be@openstreetmap.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be" target="_blank">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be</a><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>