What do you do when the centre tracks are the fast tracks and the
outer 2 tracks are the slow stopping lines, like the line near me that
runs from London Bridge to East Croydon via Forrest Hill. This is in
contrast to some other stations such as those in North London, where
you the 2 fast t
It is a different issue. Generally if there are 4 tracks, 2 will be the
fasts and 2 the slows (except on the western when they are mains/reliefs).
Having a pair of lines where virtually nothing stops makes a huge difference
to the service pattern. The actual linespeeds can be quite similar, so
line
On 5 Jun 2009, at 10:59, Tom Hughes wrote:
> Peter Miller wrote:
>
>> On 5 Jun 2009, at 10:19, Tom Hughes wrote:
>>> Incidentally, looking at that just now I see that the relation for
>>> that branch has been extended all the way down to Broxbourne
>>> station rather than terminating at Broxb
On 5 Jun 2009, at 11:23, Richard Mann wrote:
Yes but if you do that, make sure that there's a tag used for lines
which are "fast", otherwise you won't easily be able to tell which
routes have separate tracks for fast and slow trains (maybe that
exists already)
Individual tracks can of co
Yes but if you do that, make sure that there's a tag used for lines which
are "fast", otherwise you won't easily be able to tell which routes have
separate tracks for fast and slow trains (maybe that exists already)
Richard
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Steve Hill wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Jun 2009
On Fri, 5 Jun 2009, Peter Miller wrote:
> I am certainly not proposing separate ways for separate lines. I think
> there should either be one way for a bunch of parallel tracks or
> alternatively one way per track if people are getting nerdy (surely
> not!).
Tracing individual tracks might make s
On Jun 4, 2009, at 6:37 PM, Jack Challen wrote:
>
>
>> From: Peter Miller
>> Incidentally, I was speaking to a senior professional person from the
>> South West a few days ago who was aware that OSM had just mapped MK
>> and was wishing that something similar could happen where he was. I
>> sugg
Peter Miller wrote:
> On 5 Jun 2009, at 10:19, Tom Hughes wrote:
>
>> Incidentally, looking at that just now I see that the relation for
>> that branch has been extended all the way down to Broxbourne station
>> rather than terminating at Broxbourne Junction where it joins the main
>> line and
On 5 Jun 2009, at 10:49, Richard Mann wrote:
I'd be reluctant to see separate ways for Circle / H&C / Met. This
is another example where the renderers have got to crack how to draw
asymmetrical lines (ie one colour on the left of the line, another
on the right).
I am certainly not pr
All Network Rail speed restrictions are in mph, except a handful (very
distinctive) ones that are in both mph and kph (the units for the kph speed
are on the sign) near the mouth of the Channel Tunnel (essentially the route
between there and the freight yards).
I don't believe there are any speed
On 5 Jun 2009, at 10:19, Tom Hughes wrote:
> Peter Miller wrote:
>
>> Fyi, Joss (who works for ITO) is in the process of preparing a
>> new OSM railway wiki page in his user area which lists lines and
>> gives relations where they are available.
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:J
Peter Miller wrote:
> Fyi, Joss (who works for ITO) is in the process of preparing a new
> OSM railway wiki page in his user area which lists lines and gives
> relations where they are available.
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:JossSmithson/UK_railways
Joss's work had been noticed,
On 5 Jun 2009, at 09:35, Peter Miller wrote:
>
> On 5 Jun 2009, at 09:06, Peter Childs wrote:
>
>> And also I think the railway lines in london need relations for
> each line. Currently the names of lines are encoded in the ways which
> just doesn't work. One ends up with ways named as 'Circl
Peter Miller wrote:
> Any suggestion on what we should recommend for the UK? I guess the USA
> should also be party to this discussion but they have far less
> population of the maxspeed field (only 70 uses in the Bay area) so
> possibly we should come to a view first. Our options seem to be:-
On 5 Jun 2009, at 09:06, Peter Childs wrote:
> 2009/6/4 Peter Miller :
>> Makes sense.
>>
>> Another log... What about trains? Network Rail use mph, so I would
>> suggest we do the same.
>>
>
> Do they? I've seen quite a few Rail Signs that seam to be in km/h. Not
> being a train driver I'm not
On 5 Jun 2009, at 09:06, Peter Childs wrote:
> On a simular subject are there ways of Tagging 3rd Rail vs Overhead
> Power etc
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:electrified
>
> Oh and London Bridge is a mess, on 5 or 6 Layers. Needs major work,
> but is very difficult Is there a way
2009/6/4 Peter Miller :
> Makes sense.
>
> Another log... What about trains? Network Rail use mph, so I would
> suggest we do the same.
>
Do they? I've seen quite a few Rail Signs that seam to be in km/h. Not
being a train driver I'm not always sure. I think that it might be
that National Rail us
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