[iRail] Help needed: stationslist & wikipedia

Mon Aug 15 08:45:26 UTC 2011

Is there a possibility to get the station-names in different languages?

Pieter

On Mon, 2011-08-15 at 10:30 +0200, Tim Besard wrote:
> Properly translating and converting 939 pages would be a pretty
> massive undertaking.
> 
> A ready-to-use alternative: OSM. Gives you the station name, location,
> and lines passing through it with minimal effort. Misses out on
> "fancy" data like history or a picture though.
> 
> For example (using a subset of the Belgium OSM data as parsing the
> entire country takes about ~15 minutes, which can be improved to
> nearly-instant querying by using a Postgres+PostGIS database):
> > [tim at galactica Downloads]$ perl /tmp/parse.pl /home/tim/Downloads/oudenaarde.osm
> > * Opening
> > * Seeking
> > * Parsing
> >  - Station: Zottegem, at 50.8689985 x 3.8145967
> >  - Station: Eine, at 50.8704357 x 3.6238198
> >  - Station: Zingem, at 50.9081552 x 3.6463368
> >  - Station: Gavere-Asper, at 50.9288104 x 3.6401693
> >  - Station: Oudenaarde, at 50.8512803 x 3.6014922
> >  - Station: Eke-Nazareth, at 50.9607813 x 3.6279753
> >  - Station: Burst, at 50.9069103 x 3.9209811
> >  - Station: Haaltert, at 50.9068941 x 4.0233175
> >  - Station: Ede, at 50.9109933 x 3.9873011
> >  - Station: Terhagen, at 50.9013336 x 3.8959655
> >  - Station: Herzele, at 50.8970064 x 3.8798607
> >  - Station: Munkzwalm, at 50.8755623 x 3.7330341
> >  - Station: Sint-Denijs-Boekel, at 50.8742467 x 3.6983949
> >  - Station: Anzegem, at 50.8263248 x 3.4943328
> 
> Code used to generate this:
> > use Geo::Parse::OSM::Singlepass;
> > my $file = shift || die;
> >
> > print "* Opening\n";
> > my $osm = Geo::Parse::OSM::Singlepass->new($file);
> >
> > print "* Seeking\n";
> > $osm->seek_to_nodes;
> >
> > print "* Parsing\n";
> > $osm->parse( sub {
> > 	if (exists $_[0]->{tag}->{railway} && $_[0]->{tag}->{railway} eq 'station') {
> > 		print " - Station: ", $_[0]->{tag}->{name};
> > 		print ", at ", $_[0]->{lat}, " x ", $_[0]->{lon}, "\n";
> > 	}
> > });
> 
> Tim
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