[OSM-talk] wikiproject rail?

[Andy Robinson]

Richard Fairhurst wrote: 
> Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 3:08 PM
> To: talk at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] wikiproject rail?
> 
> Steve Chilton wrote (quoted in full because it went to me 
> rather than the list by mistake):
> 
> > Don't know what others think, but I have been doing some rail lines 
> > from Landsat, and have done lines out of North London into 
> > Hertfordshire this way (even easier with NickW's bringing down of 
> > Landsat to JOSM). Where one has local knowledge I think this works 
> > fine, except v difficult in heavily built-up areas. Also 
> completed the 
> > lines through New Forest this way (not yet tagged).
> 
> Do we have a consensus on whether railways should be one 
> line/way per 'railway', or one per track? In other words, is 
> (say) the Great Western Main Line from London to Reading 
> drawn as four lines (up slow, up fast, down slow, down fast) or one?


I vote for simplicity now. Nothing stopping a more thorough job in the
future.

Cheers

Andy

> 
> (I vote for the easy option. But I'm sure that recruiting a 
> few railway enthusiasts to OSM could result in OpenQuailMap - 
> cf http://www.trackmaps.co.uk/ .)
> 
> cheers
> Richard
> 
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