[Openstreetmap] UK railways

[Nick Whitelegg]

>Inspired by the amount of work done creating motorways from the lansdat
>data I set about doing the same for railways, starting with the network
>local to me, and working outwards. There's now a big chunk of yorkshire
>covered, and lots of the east coast mainline. It'd be really handy if
>these could be coloured differently on the map, as things could get
>confusing now.

>Data was created using osmeditor2 - both in off and online mode. The
>initial upload of the data worked, but returned an error. It appeared that
>all the points, and most of the segments had been uploaded. I just used it
>in online mode to join the existing points back together.

I think that's a server issue - it has sometimes happened to me, normally
if I try and upload too much data at once.

>If anyone else wants to cover their local areas, then don't feel you're
>treading on my toes - a little bit of local knowledge goes a long way (for
>example, I could happily add the line past Edale, since I've spent lots of
>time walking around there - but I've no idea of the route it takes into
>sheffield once it emerges from the other end of the tunnel).

Do you fancy mapping some of the footpaths round Edale - would be good to
see more walking data in there....

Nick



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