RailToolKit ⚙️🪽17h ago

We launched Railway Data Sources — a community-curated list of open datasets for railways worldwide.

Know a publicly available railway dataset? Add it! Just edit the README and open a pull request on GitHub.

We're just getting started and looking for contributors. Help us build a comprehensive reference for railway data!

https://www.railtoolkit.org/data-sources/ https://github.com/railtoolkit/data-sources

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Railway Data Sources

A community-curated list of datasets and data sources relevant to the railways worldwide.

Railway Data Sources
Show threadOliver Blanthorn10h ago

@railtoolkit @kaat0 what kinds of data are you most interested in?

transitous's gtfs is an obvious one

the upper gauge geometries i transcribed if we can decide on a format (currently WKT)

i mentioned it elsewhere but i am a big fan of Kontur's GHSL reprojection into H3

foursquare OS places can be a nice hierarchical complement to OSM

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i think little examples on how to use each dataset could be just as valuable as the links to them

Show threadMartin Scheidt
@bovine3dom @railtoolkit Thank you very much for the suggestion of providing an example of use for each dataset. That makes so much sense! I'll think about how to make the most of it. Probably in #JuliaLang 😀
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Show threadOliver Blanthorn6h ago

@kaat0 I really meant use as in "get some useful data out of", so e.g. a little curl query for RINF; or using osmium on Liechtenstein to extract the railway lines as geojson

but if you want to make a full Julia project for each data source I'm not going to stop you!

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