OSRD: Open-Source Railway Designer
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#2Very cool!
How hard is it to use though for someone without a real technical skill set ?
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#3Very cool! How hard is it to use though for someone without a real technical skill set ?
This appears to be governement software for Serious People doing Serious Work so I'm guessing... not very.
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#4Looking forward to enjoying simulations of existing train networks
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#5I know I don't understand the domain at all, but I'm surprised that in this day and age you'd want a distributed system to do railway design. What aspect of the problem makes it unsuitable for running in a single process?
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#6This looks like a serious tool for real professionals to use. Cool! I wish they had some screenshots or videos of the process.
In the meantime, if anyone's looking for gamified railroad-building (just for fun), check out:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1124180/Rail_Route/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1134710/NIMBY_Rails/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/503940/Railway_Empire/
Or several more: https://github.com/arcataroger/awesome-engineering-games/tre...
Re: OSRD: Open-Source Railway Designer
#7I know I don't understand the domain at all , but I'm surprised that in this day and age you'd want a distributed system to do railway design. What aspect of the problem makes it unsuitable for running in a single process?
Do you mean this? https://osrd.fr/en/docs/explanation/containers-architecture/
Could it just be the skillset that government has to? Web devs are a dime a dozen and you can probably find people to maintain/incrementally upgrade parts of it in the future easier than you could find an expert in some desktop GUI language (like .NET or Swift) that would still work after a few years of OS updates.
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#8This tool was the subject of a FOSDEM talk this year, which is available as a video on FOSDEM’s website: https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2052-open...
Re: OSRD: Open-Source Railway Designer
#9This looks like a serious tool for real professionals to use. Cool! I wish they had some screenshots or videos of the process. In the meantime, if anyone's looking for gamified railroad-building (just for fun), check out: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1124180/Rail_Route/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1134710/NIMBY_Rails/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/503940/Railway_Empire/ Or several more: https://gith…
Thanks for the links, I've just discovered Mashinky [1], which looks like OpenTTD with amazing graphics. So cool!
Re: OSRD: Open-Source Railway Designer
#10This looks like a serious tool for real professionals to use. Cool! I wish they had some screenshots or videos of the process. In the meantime, if anyone's looking for gamified railroad-building (just for fun), check out: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1124180/Rail_Route/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1134710/NIMBY_Rails/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/503940/Railway_Empire/ Or several more: https://gith…
Thanks for the links, I've just discovered Mashinky [1], which looks like OpenTTD with amazing graphics. So cool! [1]: https://store.steampowered.com/app/598960/Mashinky/
Oh no, I always envisioned and drewamed about 3d extension of TTD like this. Someone finally did it. I'm doomed.