Openstreetmap VS OpenRailwayMap

Compare Openstreetmap vs OpenRailwayMap and see what are their differences.

Openstreetmap

The Rails application that powers OpenStreetMap (by openstreetmap)

OpenRailwayMap

An OpenStreetMap-based project for creating a map of the world's railway infrastructure. (by OpenRailwayMap)
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Openstreetmap OpenRailwayMap
733 261
2,006 312
2.1% 4.2%
9.9 5.1
7 days ago 4 days ago
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Openstreetmap

Posts with mentions or reviews of Openstreetmap. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-26.

OpenRailwayMap

Posts with mentions or reviews of OpenRailwayMap. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-24.
  • Waterway Map
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jan 2024
    Looks nice but it's probably not really usable for navigation. I checked the Netherlands and Germany. You'd need more details for safely navigating on the water. But it definitely has potential.

    There are also some other specialized open street map based maps for

    - rails: https://www.openrailwaymap.org/

    - cycling: https://www.opencyclemap.org/

    - sea map (competes with this I guess, and is a bit more detailed for navigation): https://map.openseamap.org/

    And probably loads of other ones.

  • Electricity Maps
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Aug 2023
    Open Infra Map; shows major electrical lines, power plants, gas & oil lines, and telecom/data centers. Gets its data from Open Street Map: https://openinframap.org/

    Open Railway Map; shows railroad lines. Also gets its data from OSM: https://www.openrailwaymap.org/

  • HŽ - izgleda da može postići brzine
    2 projects | /r/croatia | 11 Jun 2023
  • My new concept of the trip of my life. Is it possible to pull this off using the 15 days Interrail Global Pass?
    2 projects | /r/Interrail | 22 May 2023
    Hey, I have just found this official Interrail map: https://www.interrail.eu/content/dam/pdfs/Interrail%20map%202022.pdf. There is a note on the bottom of the first page that says "Please note that only a selection of the available railway lines is shown on this map.", so I not sure it is always reliable. It is still significantly more helpful than the map I linked in my previous comment. Notice how this map shows how there is a train track in Albania (https://www.openrailwaymap.org/) and it seems to not be included into the Interrail Pass (it is absent on the official map).
    2 projects | /r/Interrail | 22 May 2023
    Thanks, I was inspired by this map: https://www.openrailwaymap.org/ I guess I was misled.
  • Urbanist Travel Guide to Netherlands/Europe
    2 projects | /r/notjustbikes | 19 May 2023
    OpenRailwayMap has a detailed map of rail lines around Europe, a good way to see metro/tram stations across cities. OSM seems to do a decent job showing pedestrian areas in Dutch cities. Google Street View/Google Earth is hard to beat.
  • Ukraine Discussion/Question Thread - 10/8/22+
    2 projects | /r/CombatFootage | 8 Oct 2022
    There is no alternate railway route over land. Unfortunate OpenRailwayMap is down atm so can't show on an interactive map, but they'd have to ferry trains to Mariupol or another city in the south and then have them go from there.
  • I made my own QR Rail map by adding old lines and some new ones, the reason for each line is in the comments :).
    2 projects | /r/brisbane | 23 Sep 2022
    Yes, I know this isn't CRR map, but that map doesn't have all stations listed. Tennyson line - **Reinplmention** of tennyson connection. Booval Line - **Reniplmention and upgrade** single track Swambank branch line. > Expanasion from springfield, connecting to Brisbane-sydney line then onto loganlea Sydney Line - **Upgrading** to due track adding stations along the way. (Addiation track may need to be made due to track our track gauge) Altandi Line - **New** line going mainly through currently undeveloped area. Dayboro Line - **Reinstating/Rebuilding** the closed part of the fenry grove line. Petri Line - **New** line connecting dayboror/Ferny Grove, mainly going through undeveloped area connecting the Strathpine. Kilcoy Line - **Reinstating old/disused track** > Foot Note, the track use to run up the Glass House Mountains Conservation Park, however it is likely if it was really reinstated it'd follow the D'aguilar Highway then reconnect where it did at the other end of the mountain. CAMCOS / Sunshine Line - CAMCOS is currently a in planning track, from what I can tell it will be rail, correct me if im wrong (Souce, Sunshine Coast Council) > Foot note, CAMCOS actually starts "starts" at Beerwah, however I'd guess it'd go down to at least pretie. To find all the disused railway track I was refercing, go here. https://www.openrailwaymap.org/ It can be a little bit hard to find as some are not shown as primary track. Fun fact, most of the lines you can still see the out line of them with ariel imagery, even if the track is no longer there.
    2 projects | /r/brisbane | 23 Sep 2022
    You can find them here! Little hard to find sometimes are they're not fully shown, mostly broken brown lines but they're there! https://www.openrailwaymap.org
  • Worldwide Rail Network Map
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Sep 2022
    Wow, the in-park "railroad" for the amusement park I grew up going to is present!

    https://www.openrailwaymap.org/?style=standard&lat=51.58248&...

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Openstreetmap and OpenRailwayMap you can also consider the following projects:

Traccar - Traccar GPS Tracking System

OsmAnd - OsmAnd

littlenavmap - Little Navmap is a free flight planner, navigation tool, moving map, airport search and airport information system for Flight Simulator X, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, Prepar3D and X-Plane.

OwnTracks Recorder - Store and access data published by OwnTracks apps

Graphhopper - Open source routing engine for OpenStreetMap. Use it as Java library or standalone web server.

uMap - uMap lets you create maps with OpenStreetMap layers in a minute and embed them in your site.

Orion - Robust web visualization tool for OwnTracks location data

OpenLayers3 - OpenLayers

Leaflet.markercluster - Marker Clustering plugin for Leaflet

Mapsui - Mapsui is a .NET Map component for: MAUI, WPF, Avalonia, Uno, Blazor, WinUI, Xamarin and Eto