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For all railway mappers, users and developers of OpenRailwayMap, a new mailing list is now available.
View ArticleServerupgrade
We have successfully moved to a more powerful server. The growing amounts of data, the increasing number of website visitors and many new features required this. The new server has the following...
View ArticleImproved rendering of maxspeeds
The rendering of the track speeds has been improved so that just the tagged maxspeed value influences the rendering order. That means that high-speed lines are rendered on the top of lowspeed lines if...
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Rendering of line names
The rendering of line names tagged with name=* was added to the map style. Note: The changes will be visible on the map only after an automatic rerendering of the tiles.
View ArticleImproved rendering of signals
The rendering of signal icons on the map has been improved. Previously many signals were visible only at high zoom levels because they overlapped with neighboring icons. This phenomenon occurred...
View ArticleNew translations and updates
The website at openrailwaymap.org is now also available in Danish, Polish, Russian and Spanish. There were also updates of the Czech, English, German, Greek, N'ko, Slovenian and Vietnamese...
View ArticleEnglish translation of the tagging scheme
Since there is also an increasing number of railway-interested mappers from the non-German-speaking countries, it is now overdue to translate the tagging scheme also into English. As a copy of the...
View ArticleRestructered signal tagging scheme
The tagging scheme of the signals has been reorganized: The general tagging scheme has been freed from coutry-specific information in the range of signals, therefore pages for country-specific tagging...
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Mobile website
It is now easier to use the OpenRailwayMap on smartphones and tablets: By visiting openrailwaymap.org from a mobile device, the user is automatically redirected to a mobile version. Opening...
View ArticleOpenRailwayMap on Twitter
The OpenRailwayMap is now represented with its own account on Twitter. There you will find information about new features of OpenRailwayMap, railroad mapping and interesting places on the map.
View ArticleImproved rendering of maxspeeds
After an style update, not just values in steps of 5 km/h, but any speed value is considered for the rendering of the maxspeed layer. The previous rendering style caused that lines with different...
View ArticleFirst mapping event
The community of railway mappers within OSM is getting bigger and the project OpenRailwayMap is expanding continously. Therefore, it is now time to get to know one another. Therefore we are planning a...
View ArticleNew translations and updates
The website at openrailwaymap.org is now also available in Dutch, French, Portugese, Swedish and Ukrainian. There were also updates of the Czech, German, Spanish, Polish, Russian and Vietnamese...
View ArticleLooking back at the OpenRailwayMap Mapping Weekend
The first OpenRailwayMap Mapping Weekend (with tagging discussion) took place in Cologne, Germany from 11 to 13 July 2014. It was a knowledge and communion exchange between the railway infrastructure...
View ArticleGerman speed signals almost complete
Since yesterday, almost all german speed signals are rendered on the map. Switching to the maxspeed layer, there are already lots of mapped signals visible on the map. Zs 3(v) light signals are not...
View ArticleValidation of railway data with JOSM
I have often seen various tagging mistakes while mapping railroads. Some day I experienced that JOSM offers a possibility to extend the built-in validator by MapCSS-like rules and thought "hey,...
View ArticleKarlsruhe Hack Weekend
Although most of the strike of Gewerkschaft der Lokomotivführer (German Train Drivers' Trade Union) last weekend, Alexander Matheisen (rurseekatze) came to OpenStreetMap Hack Weekend at Geofabrik in...
View ArticleOpenRailwayMap Meeting in Bad Nauheim, Germany
The second OpenRailwayMap Meeting took place at user spth's home in Bad Nauheim near Frankfurt (Main) on 24 to 26 October 2014. It was a extension to the first "Mapping Weekend" in Cologne in July....
View ArticleDatabase update problems resolved
Since last friday, the data updates are running again without problems, after it had been no or only irregular updates for the last several weeks. Unfortunately, the update process could not be...
View ArticleGerman Hl Signals
Hl signals are main and combined light signals used by 'Deutsche Reichsbahn' (predecessor of 'Deutsche Bahn' in the German Democratic Republic). OpenRailwayMap now renders them (example). It took a...
View ArticleFOSSGIS Hack Weekend at Linuxhotel in Essen
Last weekend (January 9–11, 2015) Alexander (rurseekatze) and Michael (Nakaner) stayed at FOSSGIS Hack Weekend at Linuxhotel in Essen, Germany. FOSSGIS e.V. is quasi, but not official OpenStreetMap...
View ArticleThe Karlsruhe hack weekend and what else happend since January
Even if there was no new blog article in the last few months, the development has not stopped. We are happy to welcome Eike (Dakon) as a new developer in our team. Since the FOSSGIS Hack Weekend in...
View ArticleUse OpenRailwayMap on your mobile device with OsmAnd
Using OpenRailwayMap on mobile devices is now easier: OsmAnd, an app running on Andriod and iOS devices, offers integrated support for OpenRailwayMap. You can easily add the different layers of...
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Expanded visualization of Austrian and German signals
For several day OpenRailwayMap visualizes a significant number of Austrian railway signals. Austrian signals are not completely new on the map. Austrian signals which look identical to their German...
View ArticleDeutsche Bahn and Open-Data
"Deutsche Bahn (Germany's national railway company) opens its datasets." A joke? No, such times seem to be past now. DB will launch its own open data portal soon. If you expect DB to publish hundreds...
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Some more Austrian signals
Some mapper may have already noticed the following changes. Anyway, here is an "official" presentation of the changes concerning Austrian signals: After a significant number of Austrian railway...
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Train protection systems
Train protection systems are now rendered in signalling layer. For the beginning, the three most important systems used in Germany and Austria are visualized: The intermittent train protection system...
View ArticleEnabling HTTPS
Now it is possible to access our website, tiles, API and mailing list using HTTPS. Users who already embed our tiles or request our API in their HTTPS website will not get mixed content errors any...
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OpenRailwayMap auf der IT-Trans
From 6. to 8. of March, the IT-Trans will take place in Karlsruhe, Germany, an international conference and exhibition for intelligent solutions for public transport. Since its first show in 2008,...
View ArticleImproved search function and new API
The search function of OpenRailwayMap uses from now on a new implementation. When searching for stations, previously only the name=* tag of OpenStreetMap was taken into account. From now on, all...
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