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Title: Where is this (map) Post by: grahame on November 26, 2020, 14:46:44 Can you recognise these stations from their local area maps?
Please - just one each at first. I haven't a clue how easy they will turn out to be! Data is Open Mapping Project data. North pointing upwards in every case - no funny rotations! In a normal year, you might have caught a GWR train from any of these, though there are four different station operators represented 1. TonyN - Marlow http://new.passenger.chat/better/map.html?stn=MLW (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qmap1.jpg) 2. eXPassenger - Paddington http://new.passenger.chat/better/map.html?stn=PAD (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qmap2.jpg) 3. patch38 - Kemble http://new.passenger.chat/better/map.html?stn=KEM (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qmap3.jpg) 4. AMLAG - Lympstone Commando http://new.passenger.chat/better/map.html?stn=LYC (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qmap4.jpg) 5. TonyN - Menheniot http://new.passenger.chat/better/map.html?stn=MEN (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qmap5.jpg) 6. Richard Fairhurst - Chalbury http://new.passenger.chat/better/map.html?stn=CBY (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qmap6.jpg) 7. Hafren - Whitland http://new.passenger.chat/better/map.html?stn=WTL (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qmap7.jpg) 8. Stuving - Melksham http://new.passenger.chat/better/map.html?stn=MKM (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qmap8.jpg) 9. eightonedee - Havant http://new.passenger.chat/better/map.html?stn=HAV (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qmap9.jpg) 10. Worcester_Passenger - Cosham http://new.passenger.chat/better/map.html?stn=CSA (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qmap0.jpg) Title: Re: Where is this (map) Post by: patch38 on November 26, 2020, 15:00:56 3 looks like Kemble but with the original Cirencester and Tetbury branches in-situ.
Title: Re: Where is this (map) Post by: grahame on November 26, 2020, 15:06:51 3 looks like Kemble but with the original Cirencester and Tetbury branches in-situ. Yes - the thin black lines are "disused", "abandoned" and "razed" in the database; other railway features are thickened. Title: Re: Where is this (map) Post by: Richard Fairhurst on November 26, 2020, 16:01:10 I like this. Could name a few of them but for my "one each at first" it does, of course, have to be 6 - Charlbury.
Title: Re: Where is this (map) Post by: grahame on November 26, 2020, 16:04:44 I like this. Could name a few of them but for my "one each at first" it does, of course, have to be 6 - Charlbury. It IS fun, isn't it! Yes - Charlbury. Setting them up, I am learning a lot about places! Title: Re: Where is this (map) Post by: Hafren on November 26, 2020, 16:09:47 7 looks like Whitland
Title: Re: Where is this (map) Post by: TonyN on November 26, 2020, 17:06:05 No 1 Marlow
Title: Re: Where is this (map) Post by: AMLAG on November 26, 2020, 17:10:10 4 = Lympstone Commando Title: Re: Where is this (map) Post by: eXPassenger on November 26, 2020, 17:53:22 No 2 - Paddington.
Title: Re: Where is this (map) Post by: grahame on November 26, 2020, 18:03:52 All right ... there's no doubt with a map, is there!
I will paste in correct answers and links in initial post Title: Re: Where is this (map) Post by: stuving on November 26, 2020, 18:10:01 No. 8 would be Melksham - mandatory if there's no Taunton?
Title: Re: Where is this (map) Post by: Western Pathfinder on November 26, 2020, 19:06:59 WOT.no Pilning!...
Title: Re: Where is this (map) Post by: eightonedee on November 26, 2020, 22:23:35 I think 9 is Havant - presumably gets trains that go on to Brighton?
Title: Re: Where is this (map) Post by: grahame on November 26, 2020, 23:23:43 I think 9 is Havant - presumably gets trains that go on to Brighton? Yes ... Havant and Melksham; just numbers 5 and 10 remaining. I find these maps fascinating - from seeing the lay of the land and catchments around stations to the tracks of old lines and the conversion to a cycle way like in Havant to where the underground runs under Paddington. Very tempted to go have a look-see in some places that look interesting on the map when that's allowed once again. Much easier to put together than a "spot the difference" too! Title: Re: Where is this (map) Post by: Worcester_Passenger on November 27, 2020, 04:52:37 10 - Cosham
Title: Re: Where is this (map) Post by: grahame on November 27, 2020, 16:35:26 10 - Cosham Yep - just one remaining ... and NOT a newcomer to members of the forum who may have read about my getting a rather nice old(er) train to stop there on request. (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qmap5.jpg) 24 hours have passed ... open to anyone to complete the quiz Title: Re: Where is this (map) Post by: TonyN on November 27, 2020, 16:46:34 5 is Menheniot
Title: Re: Where is this (map) Post by: grahame on November 27, 2020, 16:52:09 5 is Menheniot It is, Tony. Anyway, I took some pictures, and just less than an hour after I arrived, hailed the Penzance train to start my journey towards my next destination. (http://www.wellho.net/pix/menh_20200312_00.jpg) Title: Re: Where is this (map) Post by: TonyN on November 27, 2020, 17:04:59 It took quite a while to find. You don't expect the Cornish main line to run south east to north west.
Not alighted there myself I have had a look round St Germans. Sat on the Quay eating my sandwiches while a China Clay train went over the viaduct. A very nice spot. Title: Re: Where is this (map) Post by: grahame on November 27, 2020, 18:15:03 It took quite a while to find. You don't expect the Cornish main line to run south east to north west. Not alighted there myself I have had a look round St Germans. Sat on the Quay eating my sandwiches while a China Clay train went over the viaduct. A very nice spot. It's been such fun doing a lot of the mapping stuff I have been playing with - perhaps I am "addicted" to maps. I have been (http://www.wellho.net/pix/specialmap1.jpg) All public data ... but not so sure if revenue protection would like me to produce a map that highlights all the stations with ticket gates ... (http://www.wellho.net/pix/gline01.jpg) Title: Re: Where is this (map) Post by: paul7575 on November 27, 2020, 23:18:11 The faint parallel lines due west of Menheniot station (5). Are they a zip wire? That?s probably a first for a transport map.
I don?t suppose they do returns... ;D Paul Title: Re: Where is this (map) Post by: stuving on November 27, 2020, 23:53:19 The faint parallel lines due west of Menheniot station (5). Are they a zip wire? That?s probably a first for a transport map. I don?t suppose they do returns... ;D Paul That's pretty conventional cartography compared to the roughly rectangular shape marked on the "lake" (flooded quarry). That's a bouncy castle-cum-floating assault course sort of thingy. (See under Aquapark at Adrenalin Quarry or Kartworld.) Title: Re: Where is this (map) Post by: grahame on November 28, 2020, 07:46:35 At present, the mapping is vector rather than polygon fill based.
Works fine for road, railways, public footpaths, cycle ways, canals and rivers. Less good for lakes and for estuaries and the sea. I am caching base data the first time each station map is visited, and the (re)view rate is quite low, so I can switch in new facilities as I get a chance to add them in - which will NOT be in the next week, I'm afraid. Also (but not in the next week) I can look at some text labelling as I have feature names in the data too. Title: Re: Where is this (map) Post by: eightonedee on November 28, 2020, 12:42:36 It still makes a thoroughly engrossing quiz subject to keep us amused in winter lockdown. I am looking forward to the next one! Thanks Grahame
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