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• The 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. Read a short summary of the small changes since January.

• FOSSGIS Hack Weekend at Linuxhotel in Essen

  Last weekend, the FOSSGIS Hack Weekend took place at Linuxhotel in Essen, Germany. Two contributors of the OpenRailwayMap attended this event and created new signal icons, a tagging preset for Austria and much more.

• German 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.

• Database update problems resolved

  After it had been no or only irregular updates for the last several weeks, the data updates are now running properly again.

• OpenRailwayMap Meeting in Bad Nauheim, Germany

  The second OpenRailwayMap Meeting took place in Bad Nauheim near Frankfurt (Main), Germany on 24 to 26 October 2014. It was a extension to the first "Mapping Weekend" in Cologne in July. Tagging discussions, which had been skipped due to a lack of time (or too much topics), and…

• Karlsruhe Hack Weekend

  Auf dem Hackweekend der Geofabrik in Karlsruhe wurde fleißig am Signallayer geschraubt.

• Validation of railway data with JOSM

  There is a new ruleset for JOSM which makes it easy to find and correct tagging issues of railroad data.

• German speed signals almost complete

  The icons of german speed signals are now almost complete. In many places, there are already lots of mapped signals visible on the map.

• Looking 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. Besides meeting other railway infrastructure mappers and mapping two railway lines, we discussed about extensions and changes of the railway tagging scheme.…

• New translations and updates

  The website is now also available in Dutch, French, Portugese, Swedish and Ukrainian. There were also some updates of existing translations.

• First mapping event

  We are planning the first OpenRailwayMap mapping weekend and looking for interested mappers.

• Improved rendering of maxspeeds

  Issues with the rendering of maxspeeds in mph have been resolved.

• OpenRailwayMap on Twitter

  OpenRailwayMap now has an official account on twitter.

• Mobile website

  The website of the OpenRailwayMap has been optimized for mobile devices. This makes it easier to use it on mobile devices.

• Restructered signal tagging scheme

  For a clearer distinction between international and country-specific definitions, the tagging-related wiki pages have been restructured.

• English translation of the tagging scheme

  More and more railway-interested mappers come from the non-German-speaking countries - it is time to translate the tagging scheme into English. But that requires help from the community.

• New translations and updates

  The website is now also available in Danish, Polish, Russian and Spanish. There were also some updates of existing translations.

• Improved rendering of signals

  The rendering of signal icons on the map has been improved. Now all signals are displayed, regardless of whether they overlap or not. This will ensure less irritation to the users.

• Rendering of line names

  In addition to the line refs the map also shows line names now.

• Improved rendering of maxspeeds

  The incorrect rendering order in maxspeed layer was repaired.

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