About Fizzy Knitting

Overview + Mission

This is a quick summary of the ‘mad idea’ from the Scope is to:

  • show a map of UK railway network, differentiating lines which are electrified
  • using ORM = Open Railway Map
  • which is a subset of OSM = Open Street Map
  • and modify it ‘live’ so it’s always up to date
  • and a lot of editing tags already done and debate.....
  • presented with colours that might not apply else where internationally

Identified issues are:

  • whether rails are electric or not
  • and also if
  • OLE (overhead high.25kV.AC)
  • a third rail common in SE = DC.600
  • a fourth rail only London.Underground.Wombling and return rail
  • or indeed all the above together.. nightmare right? impossible ?? ;-)))
  • tagging in OSM
  • and gaining consensus in ORM and OSM
  • Its already moving fast upstream see Links

Project Details

The project is

  • open source is first principle as using open source everywhere and therby part of eco.system
  • Debate was moved from twitter to chat at gitter/fizzy-knitting
  • Code and www is hosted as a group at gitlab.com/fizzy-knitting
  • Using gitlab hosting and CI = www site (and its FOSS.. thanks gitlab)

History

Once upon a time on a hot day in May 2020 amidst a pandemic.lockdown, a rail engineer tweeted....

Hence the project Fizzy Knitting was born, a pandemic baby!