The atlas is intended for print, i.e., it consists of individual
pages with all the necessary side decorations. The final edition
will have well into three hundred pages but it will be quite some
time until then.
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Updated 15 May 2007
Welcome to the English web site of the Historical Railway Atlas of
Germany. Once finished the atlas will contain a set of maps in the
scale of 1:200,000 that show all railways that have ever operated on
the area of present-day Germany. The scale will allow to show much
detail. Where there is too much railway per square kilometer
maps in larger scale will provide that detail instead.
The atlas is intended for print, i.e., it consists of individual
pages with all the necessary side decorations. The final edition
will have well into three hundred pages but it will be quite some
time until then.
You nonetheless can download the current draft. It is available either as all pages in one file or as the individual pages in separate files. You may also download the source files and build your own atlas.
The atlas is an open source/open content project. This basically means two things. First, you can do with it whatever you want as long as the result remains under the same licenses. Second, and more important, the atlas is the collaborative work of many. If you find a mistake, can provide additional information, or have anything else to say, send it in. The current e-mail address is atlas@nvnc.de.
More Behind The Scenes stuff can be found on the following page:
Further information regards the atlas and the historical data:
... that the non-geographic data is collected in a sibling project named 'Historical Data on the German Railway Infrastructure'. Most prominently, the line numbers given in the maps refer to this project.
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Last updated on 15 May 2007. |
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