https://github.com/artemis-beta/openrailchart

An experiment of adding UK railway signals and features to OpenStreetMap
https://github.com/artemis-beta/openrailchart

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An experiment of adding UK railway signals and features to OpenStreetMap

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/artemis-beta/openrailchart
• Owner: artemis-beta
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2020-05-03T15:05:57.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-05-21T16:09:18.000Z (7 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-05-21T17:31:05.010Z (7 months ago)
• Topics: openrailwaymap, openstreetmap, railway, signals
• Language: JavaScript
• Homepage:
• Size: 37.1 MB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 11
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
# OpenRailChart Project

|National Rail: Birmingham|Welsh Highland Railway: Beddgelert|

|---|---|

|![Midland Preview](docs/screenshots/westmidlands.png)|![Midland Preview](docs/screenshots/beddgelert.png)|

|Demo of UK Mainline Signals|Demo of WHR style signals|

|![Birmingham Junctions](docs/screenshots/birmingham_feathers.png)| |

|Concept for feather indicators as additions to main signalsThe components are added separately depending onthe values under `railway:signal:route:states`.| |

Experimental project to superimpose railway information on OpenStreetMap. I wanted to create a base from which I could build a UK icon scheme possibly for OpenRailwayMap.

The project makes use of Leaflet Javascript and uses tiles from the OSM server. A local database is built for nodes using `osm2pgsql` and then parsed using a python script to

extract the information needed to build the layers.

## Objectives

* Demo various signal types in situ.

* Provide enough previews to be able to present project to ORM/OSM rail community and hopefully get these into the UK map.

* Determine a good and complete tagging scheme for UK railway signals, development of such a tagging scheme can be found [here](https://github.com/artemis-beta/ukosmrailtags/).

## Icons Directory

A directory of all current icons within this repository is given [here](docs/ORM_Icons.md).

## Data Store

Data is assembled and built by the contained Python module scripts, the data creation is automated via GitHub Actions then being deployed onto the `railgeodata` branch.

## Running

Website is deployed direct to GitHub pages [here](https://artemis-beta.github.io/OpenRailChart/). For developing locally you can use the Live Server pluging for VSCode however to emulate the subfolder "OpenRailChart" in the file paths you will need to make a soft symlink:

```bash

mkdir -p /path/to/repo/OpenRailChart

ln -s /path/to/repo/javascript /path/to/repo/OpenRailChart/javascript

```

make sure to exclude the new `OpenRailChart` folder from your git commits.

## Issues

I was unaware until later of the `-l` flag for `osm2pgsql` for latitude/longitude coordinates. As such the parser script assumes this has not been set when extracting Geofabrik data to the PostgreSQL database and converts the coordinates manually.