Evening all,
Does anyone have a GPX or KML or some other file I can import in to Google My Maps of all the Network Rail Railway routes in England, Scotland and Wales please?
I’m at a loss on how to get this info.
Thank you in advance.
This is an openstreetmap forum.
Google maps is very off-topic,
Okay let me rephrase it.
How can I use openstreetmaps to extract the Network Rail Routes to be a gpx/klm file?
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I’m not sure how complete the data is, and exactly what you want to do with it / use it for may affect things, but it may be that you want to search for ways that are members of relations tagged with type=route + route=railway. Here’s one such example: Relation: Ely to Norwich Line (17015934) | OpenStreetMap .
But such a query will also return things you probably don’t want, such as the route of the preserved/heritage “Mid Norfolk Railway”: Relation: North Elmham Branch (17012397) | OpenStreetMap . So you’ll probably need to do some filtering on the ref=* values from those relations (which appear to be the Engineer’s Line References). RailwayData | Line Files & Gradient Profiles might help you there.
There are various options to filter and export data from OSM. The Overpass API might be suitable for what you want, but I don’t think it offers KML as an output format, so you’d need something to convert what you get at the end.
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Thank you.
Heritage lines wouldn’t be a problem I could keep them in.
Overall I have all the gpx coordinates of all the stations so I was hoping to be able to link them all up on one map