Bending geographic maps for enhanced railway space-time diagrams https://peertube.watch/videos/watch/1fceff30-a6ce-4c9c-9e90-79c0dbdc1dd2 Space-Time diagrams are crucial schematics for organizing railway traffic. However, their symbolic representation hides the reality of the railway infrastructure that supports the traffic. In Open Source Railway Designer, we found it necessary to enhance the context related to the 'space' component of this diagram. We developed a custom projection, bending a map to position the origin at the bottom, the destination at the top, and the path relatively straight in between. The outcomes reveal a vertically aligned map following the Space-Time diagram, but with precise infrastructure details alongside geographic context using Open Street Map data. This presentation will delve into the technique, discussing the calculations, implementation methods, as well as my experience navigating this challenge as a graphics developer without domain knowledge. Speaker: Alexis Jacomy, Track: Railways and Open Transport devroom, Room: K.4.401, When: Saturday 3 February 2024, 12:25–12:45 (Brussels time), Schedule: FOSDEM 2024 event page, Slides & links Slides PDF, Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Belgium (CC BY 2.0 BE) (as stated in the FOSDEM video archive). Attribution: “Bending geographic maps for enhanced railway space-time diagrams” by Alexis Jacomy, FOSDEM 2024. Original recording: 2024/k4401/fosdem-2024-2594-bending-geographic-maps-for-enhanced-railway-space-time-diagrams.av1.webm from the FOSDEM video archive. This channel is an unofficial mirror; FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event organised by the community for the community. Sun, 18 Oct 2026 20:55:58 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.watch Bending geographic maps for enhanced railway space-time diagrams https://peertube.watch/lazy-static/avatars/3b284627-b75f-409e-ac2e-10f4c2946f43.png https://peertube.watch/videos/watch/1fceff30-a6ce-4c9c-9e90-79c0dbdc1dd2 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.watch/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.