We identify typical errors with railway data in OpenStreetMap. OSM data is very high quality already and is used in professional applications, e.g. OSRD.
During the hackathon, we found algorithms to spot
- disconnected tracks
- suspocious switches
- stations apart from tracks (e.g. missing relation)
- weird track angles
- missing gauge information
Also see the presentation we gave.
This project has been initiated during the Dreiländerhack 2023, a joint hackathon organised by the railway companies ÖBB, DB, and SBB.
We have tried to set up a productive Osmose instance but ran into issues. Therefore, we used a local dev instance and put the issues via XML via the API into a frontend.
The hacky scripts to create these reports are in this repositories and will be further developed.
- https://github.com/OpenRailFoundation/FixOurRail-weird-angles
- https://github.com/OpenRailFoundation/FixOurRail-osmose-frontend
The content of this repository is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.