NaPTAN does include some of the heritage railways in the metro section of the database, any missing points could be possibly filled from this source.
2009/6/28 Frankie Roberto <fran...@frankieroberto.com>: > Hi all, > > I've spent some time this weekend going through the list of heritage > railways: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_United_Kingdom_Railways/Independent_and_minor_railways > and adding route relations to them. I'm about 50% of the way through so far. > > Some points/questions to the group: > > * I've been adding both the ways and the stations to the relation - the > stations as role=stop. Is this correct? > * Am not sure whether the name should still be attached to the ways or not. > On the one hand, it's a lot of duplication, and in some cases, the way might > have a different name from the route (eg it might be a bridge, with its own > name). On the other hand, having the name attached to the ways might be > useful for renderers. > * I've given all the routes the name of the railway (eg "The Bluebell > Railway") rather than the end-to-end name that is common for mainline routes > (eg "London-Brighton"). > * I've added the website address of the railway to the relation in a few > cases (using url=). > * There are a few cases where the actual track extends beyond the final > station (eg used for turning the train around, or as an occasional link to > the National Rail network). I haven't included these bits within the > relation, on the presumption that they aren't part of the 'route' that > passengers actually experience. > * Is there any additional information that could be captured at a relation > level? Wikipedia reference? Months of operation? Operator? (this is often > the same as the name) > > Finally, if someone fancies doing a nice rendering of the UK clearly showing > all of the heritage railway lines (perhaps with just terrain contours as a > background), then I'll offer up to GBP 20 for a print of it... :-) > > Frankie > > -- > Frankie Roberto > Experience Designer, Rattle > 0114 2706977 > http://www.rattlecentral.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-transit mailing list > talk-tran...@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit > > -- Regards, Thomas Wood (Edgemaster) _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
