[talk-au] How are we going to do trams?

Alastair Knox alastair.knox at gmail.com
Tue Sep 4 01:14:32 BST 2007


Neil,
 an example that may help is Karlsruhe, Germany. This small city has a tram
system similar to Melbourne's and is also home to a very good school of
cartography.

http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=49.005482529225446&lon=8.404521196837205&zoom=12&layers=B0F

Alastair.

On 04/09/07, spammed at aanet.com.au <spammed at aanet.com.au> wrote:
>
> Hi Melbournians (and Adelaidians and Bendigonians!)
> Trams are one of Melbourne's best assets, but not much is shown on the
> map yet.
> Are there any good examples of European cities with trams?
>
> We have a few things to consider:
> - Trams in the middle of normal, undivided roads (eg. Nicholson St. No.
> 96)
> - Trams on their own routes (eg. past the zoo..?)
> - Trams with their own track in a median strip
> - Route number labelling
> - Stop labelling and numbering
>
> How would all this show up on the slippy map?
> Reckon we'd get any help from Yarra Trams if we asked?  Would we want
> to?
>
> Neil.
>
>
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