Guide to European Rail Maps and Atlasses (2013)

[Tomte]

https://www.notechmagazine.com/2013/12/the-thomas-cook-railway-map-of-europe.html

[stereo]

This was written in 2013, when https://www.openrailwaymap.org didn't exist.

[Symbiote → stereo]

There's also the public transport rendering on OpenStreetMap.org.

I find this more useful day-to-day, is it also shows busses and ferries, and I'm not often interested in the technical details like the exact line speeds.

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#layers=T

[barrkel → stereo]

That doesn't appear to be a printed map.

[SahAssar → stereo]

Is openrailwaymap just a filter of which OSM features to show, or does it include data that is not in OSM?

[mormegil → SahAssar]

It's just a specialized renderer for the same database. But the project cares about the data model and helps curate the data. See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenRailwayMap

[rmc → mormegil]

It's a project run by the intersection of trainspotters & map programmer nerds. Of course they care about data models & tagging and curating data. :)

[xeromal → stereo]

Can you print this?

[Symbiote → xeromal]

With a small script you could download the 100-odd tiles you might need[1], join them together (perhaps with montage[2]), and print the result.

This won't produce a poster-quality print, and the usual services to print OSM don't seem to have a transport theme available[3].

[1] https://b.tiles.openrailwaymap.org/standard/4/8/5.png and https://a.osm.rrze.fau.de/osmhd/4/8/5.png would work, both are for HiDPI displays; 4 is the zoom, 8 the x position ('left' origin), 5 the y position ('top' origin).

[2] https://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/montage/

[3] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_on_Paper

[_0nac]

There's also a map of Japan's rail system, which is a thing of obsessive beauty:

https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/53640/where-can-i...

Unfortunately the pics of it are tiny, but as a sampler, here's what greater Tokyo looks like:

http://ontheworldmap.com/japan/city/tokyo/tokyo-rail-map.htm...

[CaptainZapp → _0nac]

When it comes to trains in Japan Hyperdia[1] is your ultimate friend.

It's the electronic time table for all things (train) travel in Japan. I put (train) in quotes because it also displays flights if the routing is more convenient.

Searches are highly configurable and it provides not only the best routing, but also includes the prices for the available options.

[1] http://www.hyperdia.com/en/

[bravura]

So where can I order a European rail map printed as a poster?

If I buy one of the folding maps it will be creased, naturally.

[gpvos → bravura]

https://www.europeanrailtimetable.eu/rail-map-of-europe-flat...

Shows only current passenger railways (excluding suburban networks), not freight.

[based2]

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/gisco/gisco-activities/sta...

http://ec.europa.eu/transport/infrastructure/tentec/tentec-p...

https://ec.europa.eu/maritimeaffairs/atlas_en

https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps

[michelb]

Not directly related, but if you want to travel by train (almost) anywhere in the world: https://www.seat61.com