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Thursday, January 11, 2018

Name The Earth From Its Runway Network


Can you lot lay a province from its national rails network? There are ix countries/regions to lay inwards the picture above. See how many you lot tin become on your ain earlier checking the answers at the bottom of this post. Hint: the private maps are non to scale.

I created these ix mini railway maps using the OpenRailwayMap. The OpenRailwayMap uses OpenStreetMap appointment to map the world's railways. Using the map you lot tin persuasion rails infrastructure around the footing for railways, subways, trams, miniature railways in addition to funiculars.

To practise the picture inwards a higher house I used the OpenRailwayMap API. The OpenRailWayMap API allows you lot to only charge the OpenRailWay map tiles into a release of unlike interactive mapping platforms. I added the OpenRailWay map tiles to a Leaflet map. If you lot charge the map tiles into Leaflet without adding whatever other map tiles you lot become a map of exactly the world's railway lines, without whatever other map information (for event house labels, province borders etc), which is perfect for creating a petty railway network map quiz.

Answers (select text below to reveal)

Great Britain, North America (Canada, USA in addition to Mexico), Italy

India, Kingdom of Spain & Portugal, Japan

Australia, France, Kingdom of Denmark & Kingdom of Norway in addition to Sweden.