Chuck, Thanks for the update. See if there is anything more I can do.
Would like to hit up the signals vs train protection information at some point as well. Anyway I can be productive to help with the project. Nat P email: [email protected] On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 4:08 AM Chuck Sanders <[email protected]> wrote: > With respect to showing the operator name instead of the line name, that's > something we had extensive discussion about over the summer. We did get buy > in from a wider part of the international ORM community on the fact that we > need different labelling in North America. In short, the current labelling > (line name, not operator) is definitely correct for Europe, where this > project really began, but no one there realized at the time that we would > need something different in North America. > > Michael Reichert (Nakaner in the GitHub repos) indicated he thought we > should be able to do this with a shared rendering, such that when the > renderer was working in North America it could automatically switch to > displaying the operator name instead of the line name. However, I know most > of his work that I knew of since summer had been on switching us all over > to a complete new (and better supported) rendering stack which looks to > have been pretty involved, so a lot of our work in NA over the summer was > in starting to get operator reporting marks entered in operator:short field > so we'd have something legible and useful to display. > > I fell off the map myself in early September, work got really busy again > and I'm just now trying to get caught back up in OSM land myself. > > Chuck > > On Tue, Nov 24, 2020, 21:11 Christopher Parker <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I have no answer, but I want to say that I am glad Nat that you have >> stepped forward. I like your idea. >> >> I would suggest that "operator" is important enough that it should be >> part of what shows on open street map. They seem to have decided >> otherwise, but that is in error. In the US context it is critical, and >> showing the line name is unimportant for the general public. I don't know >> if that battle is worth fighting, but improving open railway map sure is. >> >> Christopher >> >> >> On 11/24/2020 8:30 PM, Natfoot wrote: >> >> Hello to the group, >> If I wanted to contribute to the website map and design, how do I move >> forward? I had a hard time deciding from the wiki how to proceed. I did >> find https://github.com/OpenRailwayMap/OpenRailwayMap this by selecting >> the authors list and found the fork and pull methods. Shall I do such to >> make revision changes to the viewer? >> >> I would like to add an additional radial for railroad operator or >> ownership and work through the way that looks on the site. Maybe color >> code owner/operators. >> >> I am asking to see what has changed, as some things have not been updated >> in a few years. I don't want to step on anyone's toes as I move forward >> with my changes and future discussions. Eg. I want to step out on the right >> foot. >> >> Best Regards, >> Nat P >> email: [email protected] >> >>
