[Talk-in] Identifying usage of railway tracks

Arun Ganesh arun.planemad at gmail.com
Fri Apr 7 08:53:34 UTC 2017


This would be really interesting for the railfans! JOSM would be best
suited to add tags to multiple segments at once. Rought workflow:

   - Download the railway segments in JOSM
   - Select any way and hit shift+w to select the continuous track
   - Add the correct `usage` or `service` tag based on
   http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:usage
   http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:service#Railways


On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 7:42 PM, Srihari Thalla <thallasrihari at gmail.com>
wrote:

> As of this writing, there are 10052 Ways with railway=rail but without any
> usage=* / service=* tags[1].
>
> I have created a MapRoulette Challenge[2] with these Ways. I hope this
> Challenge would get IRFCA fans interested[3]. (Who knows about railways
> better than them? ;))
>
> But, I have not filled in the instructions on how to complete the
> Challenge. I don't think many IRFCA people know how to contribute to OSM,
> so I believe a detailed instruction manual would be necessary (like this
> [4]).
>
> Can someone help me with preparing it?
>
> [1] - http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/o9o
> [2] - http://maproulette.org/map/2465
> [3] - http://www.openrailwaymap.org
> [4] - https://gist.github.com/SrihariThalla/ab896aecef7f50999aae1b2fd210c0
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