Nice work!
But missing the iconic Ghan in Australia https://digital-classroom.nma.gov.au/images/route-taken-ghan
World Train Map – 1247 train routes around the world
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#12https://www.openrailwaymap.org/ is much more comprehensive. It's open street map data, but filtered for railway infrastructure.
That's more like it, the Ghan (AU) track is shown
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#13Really nice, how does this compare to https://www.openrailwaymap.org/ ?
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#14AI lets people produce things that look authoritative, but are crap. Tiresome.
At first glance, https://www.openrailwaymap.org seems much better
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#15This is a very dangerous site for train travel geeks. Like, what am I doing with my life? I should be catching the Nile Valley Sleeper, 879km "Overnight up the Nile past Luxor’s temples: wake to feluccas and the First Cataract at Aswan."
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#16https://www.openrailwaymap.org/ is much more comprehensive. It's open street map data, but filtered for railway infrastructure.
World Train Map is, by design, a curated map of interesting passenger trains, not a comprehensive map. The problem with every comprehensive map I've seen is that they are way too comprehensive. If you look at Congo on https://www.openrailwaymap.org/ , you might assume the country has a functional passenger railway network, when almost most lines shown were for bulk cargo only, fell into disrepair in the 1960s and cer…
How is it comprehensive? Did someone just say “be comprehensive” to their agent?
Quick Look in Mexico and it’s not good.
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#17This is missing just about all of the short lines in America. So by default the is NOT a world train map. This link and website is misleading to think it is the world of train maps. Disappointing.
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#18This is missing just about all of the short lines in America. So by default the is NOT a world train map. This link and website is misleading to think it is the world of train maps. Disappointing.
It's missing some weird ones for having others operating as part of the same public transport systems too.
Old data? Where's the data from?
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#19The map is ok, but mostly I'm interested in the number of map apps people are cranking out with AI. The design elements pretty clearly mark them as such (and it's even more obvious once you poke around a bit). I love maps, so I get it, they tend to hook people, and the relative density of information can be very high.
I work in the electricity space (and of course we have a map[0]), and it has been wild to see the number of "I was a PM at a B2B SaaS/AI company and now I'm here to solve the grid with this vibe-coded tool", which inevitably involves a map. Seems like an inflection point was hit sometime late last year where first SMEs could make little apps they couldn't before, and then it expanded further into people who truly don't know a space but the AI can make it look like they do to other people who also don't, and the cycle continues.
[0] https://www.gridstatus.io/map?zoom=4.45¢er=-95.70000,40....
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#20Really nice, how does this compare to https://www.openrailwaymap.org/ ?
One is AI slop, one is direct OSM data