OK, this is cool: http://www.openrailwaymap.org/?lang=en&lat=40.5&lon=-73&zoom=8&style=maxspeed
It's USA's Northeast Corridor (rail infrastructure) colored with maxspeed tags. BTW, if you toggle from Maxspeed (style radio button) to Infrastructure, you'll see the NEC as orange mainline only in those few segments where we either don't know that the rail is truly high-speed (>=160 kph) or we do know it to be not high-speed, and a maxspeed= tag isn't yet entered. So now, most of the NEC (where maxspeed>=160) displays as a vivid red using Infrastructure, the USA's only high-speed rail corridor.
(Serge might even like this, it Resolves lengthy Comments at http://www.osm.org/changeset/29723896 ).
Yes, I'm still cheerleading, still "generating interest" in better USA rail infrastructure, still using various OSM wiki pages to do so, because all of these work. I hope it's not too strong to say I consider rail infrastructure improvement as a rough proxy for USA OSM enthusiasm (and our ability to generate it, partly by talk-us posts, partly by OSM missives and partly by wiki pages). But it would be nice if one person here said "I read Steve's 'rail ra-ra' posts on talk-us, and look at all that enthusiasm and great data entry he encourages!" This is a fifty-state effort, and we can't just hear crickets chirping all the time, you know.
You could also tell me to just tone it down here, too. While you might accuse me of fishing for compliments, that's not the primary reason I posted this. Part of it is "better grass-roots enthusiasm generation" (and perhaps how talk-us either does or doesn't fit into that). I'm in listening mode now.
Respectfully, SteveA California _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
