Hi again, You know how people introduce proposals with zero tag usages on the map? Well, I've been fixing metro systems, and now you cannot say the "Metro Mapping" proposal is too abstract. I have reworded a few sections, and improved some, thanks to commenters. The "What This Affects" section now has only five items, all on point. There are illustrations! I plan to start the voting next week.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Metro_Mapping The validator is run twice a day, at 5 and 13 UTC. It showed 3 acceptable networks a month ago (of 180), now it has 40, with 22 in Europe. Yesterday I finally made London Underground network pass. It serves as a good example of a properly-mapped metro network, with 270 stations and 25 "type 2" interchanges (types are outlined in the proposal). If you're from the UK, the DLR network is still mostly unmapped. http://osmz.ru/subways/ I have been improving the subway processor / validator almost daily. It does not simply count the stations and routes. It builds the whole network in memory: cities to routes to route variants to route stops (including a stop positions projected on tracks) to stop areas to stations. Tracks are taken from OSM and extended using stop positions. There are distances between stops by the tracks and separate platforms for entering and leaving a train. I am pretty proud of the result. https://github.com/mapsme/subways Yes, you can use the script to make a GTFS feed for every well-mapped metro network in OSM. The only thing you would miss is an exact schedule. My plan is to try merging the OSM data with an existing GTFS feed, maybe even for railway networks. Thanks, Ilya _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
