[Talk-us] Rail rendering support in our wiki?

[Alexander Jones]

OSM Volunteer stevea wrote:

> As I contribute to our wiki pages, I find it useful in certain
> circumstances to use this syntax:
> 
> <slippymap h=480 w=720 z=11 lat=37.35 lon=-121.98 layer=cycle></slippymap>
> 
> to display (instead of mapnik/Standard) a bicycle-oriented map (Cycle Map
> layer, note "layer=cycle" above).  See, for example,
> http://wiki.osm.org/wiki/South_Bay_(SF),_California for Silicon Valley's
> unique "Expressways" and extensive bicycle infrastructure.
> 
> As I also make USA rail contributions, is there any way that our wiki
> might allow similar "layer=rail" syntax to display OpenRailwayMap (.org),
> for example to display an appropriate rendering at the top of our
> California/Railroads wiki page?
> 
> Also, if OSM's "layer" control (stack icon) added OpenRailwayMap, (to
> complement our Transport layer; thank you, Andy), that would be GREAT!
> 
> Thanks in advance to whomever might get this or these "stitched in" to our
> wonderful project,
> 
> SteveA
> California
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Ditto Michael's notes on the fact that ORM is an overlay (well, a family of 
overlays), not a base map. AFAIK you can't add an overlay as a layer on 
osm.org, nor can you add it to Marble (believe me, I've tried that). I would 
personally like the ability to add overlays in both, but I don't have that 
authority.

In those cases, as well as the wiki, we'd have to deal with increased 
traffic to the overlay host, who may not be equipped to handle it.

Alexander