My definition of a subway is a network of lines that are marked "subway" on official subway maps.
Though validator also processes light rail lines (with obviously similar definition). Ilya > 30 сент. 2017 г., в 19:59, john whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> написал(а): > > Silly question but what is your definition of a subway? > > Is it different to commuter rail? > > Thanks John > > On 30 Sep 2017 12:38 pm, "Ilya Zverev" <i...@zverev.info> wrote: > Hi, > > I have made a script that parses and validates subway systems. It prints the > number of subway lines and stations that an automated system can extract from > the OpenStreetMap data. See the latest report here (these are updated > manually for now): > > http://osmz.ru/subways/ > > It is still in beta: it doesn't use networks and omits many non-european > cities. We plan to employ it for maps.me, so it would be the first app that > does world-wide subway routing using only OSM data. To make tagging subway > systems uniform and usable, I've compiled a list of practices on this page: > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Metro_Mapping > > Some questions are answered on the Talk page there. Next week I'll open a > voting, so that tagging schema could be made official. The validator of > course expects that kind of tagging, though it allows for some omissions. > > Ilya > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
