Is anyone aware of a rail map of Spain that shows Cercanías/Rodalies services on a line by line basis at a country level?
There is this nice map on Wikimedia by Maximilian Dörrbecker that highlights the areas with Cercanías/Rodalies, but it would be nice if in place of the highlighted areas, the Cercanías/Rodalies lines were shown. I am aware it is a bit of a niche request.
(I know you can view the individual Cercanías/Rodalies maps on the Renfe website)
@squawkbox
Talking about rabbit holes...
This made me wonder if it would be possible to construct such a map using pure #OpenStreetMap data.
In my first attempt I found some highly implausible "Cercanías Asturias" routes through empty parts of Extremadura and Almería.
I eventually tracked that down to the ID editor prompting mappers to assign all train routes in Spain to the first Spanish network in alphabetical order.
/ctd
@james
@squawkbox
So having confirmed that there was no arcane rail fan lore behind the mysterious tags, I removed them.
And asked a question on the OSM forum about fixing the dubious suggestions.
And added some comments to a related Github issue.
Now... what did I set out to do again?
Oh yes, I think creating a map of all Cercanías networks in Spain might now be possible after those fixes. But I have to do things in the real world now...
@james
Here's a first attempt using Overpass Turbo:
https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1Yfn
I included everything with "Cercan" or "Rodal" in the network tag. This won't pick up FGC or Euskotren routes.
The old FEVE metric gauge lines are tricky - Renfe hasn't always been consistent about what gets the "Cercanías" label, and OSM tagging is a bit unpredictable. I can see that some lines around Santander and Leon are missing. I've used a different colour where tagging suggest a narrow gauge line.
squawkbox
James
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