[Imports] Importing data

[Michael Reichert]

Hi Patricia,

Am 2017-03-17 um 01:50 schrieb BYRNE, PATRICIA:
> I work for a rail operator in NSW Australia and we are currently exploring the idea of importing some of our corporate rail, signal and track speed GIS data to open rail map that would cover the greater Sydney region.
> 
> At this exploratory stage, I was wondering if you could provide us with details about the steps required to import this data and sample data schema so we can match our data to this.
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.

It is nice that a railway operator wants to "be on the map". :-)

If you import data which only a small community is interested in (e.g.
railway or power data), you should get in touch with that community
beforehand. That's why I ask to post your desire/plans on the
OpenRailwayMap mailing list.
http://lists.openrailwaymap.org/lists/listinfo/openrailwaymap
(Don't forget to subscribe the list before posting)
I don't know if there are active railway mappers in Australia. If there
are any, you will reach them via the OpenRailwayMap mailing list.

It is not easy to do a full import of railway instructure data. There is
a clear and well documented tagging schema for everything except
signals. The signal tagging is country-specific because every
country/railway operator has its own signalling rules. The is a rough
frame (you could call it an abstract tagging scheme) which describes
which keys to use and which patterns the values should follow.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenRailwayMap/Tagging/Signal

An example of a country-specific tagging scheme is the German tagging
scheme for signals in Germany:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenRailwayMap/Tagging_in_Germany

Best regards from Germany

Michael

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