Thank you for the prompt response and sharing of your knowledge. railway could have several sub catagories. heritage routes, current operating frieght rail, possible proposed routes current passenger rail - surface and separated, elevated, grade separated, automated proposed passenger rail routes. in above sub catagories. Will come back to computer tomorrow night, hope others can help me put this together. Go Canada Go, Bob
_____ From: samvekem...@gmail.com [mailto:samvekem...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Sam Vekemans Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2010 2:49 PM To: Bob Bowles Cc: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org; ke...@refactory.ca; Richard Weait Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] FW: Welcome to MyTTC! Hi, Nice ideas :) I wish Victoria, BC would have not dug up the old street-car line and paved it into a road. It would be great to see a rail line that isn't just a tourist train going 2 times a day. ... 1 time per direction. Sorry i cant be of much help right now, directly to you, but hopefully others who are more local would help. :) (For the talk-ca@ discussion list) Hows 'railway=proposed'? As i dont think there are conflicting plans, dont see a problem with it being listed, and not physically connected. Another option is to draw it in as a GPS track (using bikemap.net or Garmin MapSource routable map) and just export that file for viewing overtop of Google earth with the openstreetmap KML layer turned on? (also, OpenOrienteringMap lets you draw on the map a route & print it as a PDF. Cheers, Sam On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Bob Bowles <rkbow...@telus.net> wrote: Total novice, just found your site, HELP ! Bob Bowles, Langley City, BC _____ From: Kevin Branigan [mailto:ke...@refactory.ca] Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2010 11:44 PM To: Bob Bowles Subject: Re: Welcome to MyTTC! Hey Bob, Are you just trying to compile the database? I would personally suggest OpenStreetMaps, that way other people could benefit from your hard work - they also have excellent tools to help you with entering the data. If you're a web developer you can use the tools on CloudMade to produce nice looking maps that incorporate your dataset. I sure would like to see that data for the Toronto area, but I'm not sure what I'd do with it to be honest. Thanks for using our site, Kevin On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 1:15 AM, Bob Bowles <rkbow...@telus.net> wrote: Hello Kieran & Kevin I'm starting on a personal project to indentify all railbed, past and present, in the entire Fraser Valley. My first source is a map put out by CBRE called " Greater Vancouver Industrial & Commercial Areas " I found all the old streetcar runs at this website - http://bcer.trams.bc.ca/maps.html This site has some good ideas for the South of Fraser region. http://www.box.net/shared/xhs5dlwcg0 There is also a book with all the old logging railbeds, part of a Valley Logging history book I found at a museum. How would you, digitally overlay these and perhaps add other lines as I find them? Further I see 2 pinch points in the Valley, Pattallo railbridge and where hwy 91 & hwy 99 meet. Then I need to figure out who owns which sections of railbed. Ideally, I'd like to model an entire transit system. Too much time on my hands now that I'm not driving the streetcars http://www2.bombardier.com/vancouver/index.html _____ From: my...@refactory.ca [mailto:my...@refactory.ca] Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 7:34 PM To: rkbow...@telus.net Subject: Welcome to MyTTC! Thanks for signing up at MyTTC.ca ! You can totally respond to this e-mail, we're actual people. We hope you have as much fun using the site as we had building it. If you have any comments or suggestions, please drop us a line! Cheers, Kieran & Kevin, refactory _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
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