[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Railway route relations

[Brian Prangle]

Hi everyone

I've added a railway relation for the West Coast Mainline  as it runs thoruh
New Street - so far I've got as far from Rugby Junction to Sandwell & Dudley
station.  I've named it as Strategic Route 17 Primary- SRs are what Network
Rail use to label their network. The West Midlands is Route 17. The problem
is ALL the railway tracks in the WM are Route 17 and are differentiated into
primary, secondary, rural and freight - so I'm not too sure how to proceed
in classification afte I've competed the WCML through to Wolverhampton. I've
done this mainly to see the rail routes renderd in the opnvkarte public
transport map.  Relation No is 164889 Tagging is as follows

<tag k="name" v="Railway Route 17  primary"/>
<tag k="operator" v="Network Rail"/>
<tag k="route" v="railway"/>
<tag k="strategic_route" v="Route 17"/>
<tag k="strategic_route_status" v="primary"/>
<tag k="type" v="route"/>

You can see the full document from Network Rail at :

http://www.networkrail.co.uk/browsedocuments/StrategicBusinessPlan/RoutePlans/2007/R17
- West Mids


ITO also have someone working on this nationally and he has a useful wiki on
his OSM user page at:


http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:JossSmithson/UK_railways

Anyone else want to help?  I think the first task is to agree probably via
talktransit on how we should tag the relations for Route 17and maybe use
that as a template. I've not added ref=17 yet but that's trivial to
implement, if we agree that's how we want to go. For instance Route 17
covers the physical infrastructure but how do we ( do we want to?) add
relations for the passenger operators ( e.g Virgin and London Midland (and
the new operator from Shrewsbury) as they run services over the same tracks
just like bus operators on roads. Can  the folks at opnvkarte ( who have the
luxury of just DeutscheBahn running trains in Germany) cope with multiple
operators?

btw route 17 not rendered yet on opnvkarte

Also railway platforms are now rendered so here's your chance to survey
them!

Regards

Brian
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