Route Art How To See Underground Track?

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  1. splashscreen#8679

    splashscreen#8679 Member

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    I'm trying to make a route of the swedish subway and I am struggling to find where the tracks underground are. The google maps overlay cant show them underground. Like here where the tracks are going into a tunnel.
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    Anyone have a solution for this?
     
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  2. RobertSchulz

    RobertSchulz Well-Known Member

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    Not a solution, but a help at least.

    You can use the kml line as a guide for you to show up in the Editor.

    Here is a guide by Skyhook's Adam Lucas, how to do that, with a very impressive screenshot of him attached, where he assigned each track and even invididual buildings and other points of interest, their own kml lines.

    When creating the kml line in Google Maps or Google Earth Pro, check the subterrain path on other maps, for example openrailwaymap and then place your kml lines accordingly by using buildings, streets etc. as reference points.

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  3. splashscreen#8679

    splashscreen#8679 Member

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    Thank you so much! I can try to use this technique even tho it will be a bit tricky. But it's better than nothing. But how did they manage to make the Bakerloo line? Did they guess or did they use another technique?
     
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    mkraehe#6051 Well-Known Member

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    Worth noting that underground railways on most publicly available maps, including OpenStreetMap, are just (educated) guesses and nowhere near as accurate as overground infrastructure on the same maps.
     

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