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josm resources:
beginners settings: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/User:SlowRider
geocoding photos: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocoded_photo
database:
terrorism: http://www.tkb.org/Home2.jsp
lessons learned: https://www.llis.dhs.gov/
metro resrouces:
urban rail net for mumbai: http://www.urbanrail.net/as/mumb/mumbai.htm
stories from the london tube: http://www.trainweb.org/tubeprune/unstories.htm
mapping resources:
gpx documentation: http://www.topografix.com/gpx.asp
encode location in rss feeds: http://georss.org/
javascript mapping library http://www.mapstraction.com/
modest maps
main site: http://modestmaps.com/
(Lists are from www.nationmaster.com)
Top 10 Busiest Metro Stations (annual passenger rides):
Moscow 3.2 billion
Tokyo 2.7 billion
Seoul 1.6 billion
Mexico City 1.3 billion
New York City 1.3 billion
Paris 1.2 billion
Osaka 957 million
London 886 million (4.6 billion miles)
Hong Kong 798 million
St. Petersburg 784 million
Top 5 Largest Metro Stations (number of stations):
New York 468
Paris 368
London 270
Tokyo 217
Moscow 140
The 5 Oldest Metro Stations:
1863 London
1896 Budapest, Glasgow
1897 Boston
1900 Paris
london: its up to you
South Quay DLR station
madrid
The Madrid Metro is one of the largest metro systems in the world, which is especially remarkable considering Madrid's population of approximately 3.5 million (Madrid city) to 6 million (metropolitan area). In fact, it is among the top 10 longest metros in the world, though Madrid is approximately the twentyfith most populous metropolitan area in the world. Taking into account a kilometer per inhabitant ratio, Madrid has the densest subway network in the world. It is also one of the fastest growing in the world, rivalled only by the Seoul Metro (Seoul); the latest round of expansions, completed in spring 2003, have increased its length to 226.7 kilometres. The metro has 190 stations on 12 lines (and one branch line.) An additional 44 km of metro lines are expected to be constructed by 2007, as well as 30 km of light rail lines that will serve the western region of the metropolitan area.
The metro opened on October 17, 1919 under the direction of the Compania de Metro Alfonso XIII. Metro stations served as air raid shelters during the Spanish Civil War. Starting in the 1970s, it was sequentially greatly expanded to cope with the influx of population and urban sprawl from Madrid's economic ascendancy. A huge project in the late 1990s and early 2000s installed approximately 50 kilometres of new metro tunnels, including a direct connection between downtown Madrid and Barajas International Airport (line 8), and service to outlying areas, including a huge 40-kilometre loop called MetroSur (line 12) serving Madrid's southern suburbs.
new york: "if you see something say something"
india mumbai metro: ->http://www.mumbaimetro1.com/mmportal/HTML/index.html
israel/palenstine
tokyo
subway sarin incident
Despite the noticeable discomfort caused by the gas, not a single interviewee asked other passengers what was going on, preferring to wait until the next stop to change trains.
Passengers that lost consciousness remained lying on the floor for some time. Commuters, with a few notable exceptions, did not attempt to help them, but instead waited for employees whose authority allowed them to intervene.
The Tokyo Subway (chikatetsu) is one of the world's most extensive metro/subway systems. The two primary networks are operated by Tokyo Metro Co. Ltd (8 lines) and Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation (4 lines).
As of September 2005, there were 168 train stations operated by Tokyo Metro, with an average of 5.69 million passengers per day. They employ 8,721 staff, and the busiest station is Shinjuku (which is also the world's busiest, and second largest, with an estimated traffic of 2 million passengers per day).
- moscow
- Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line (Russian: Серпуховско-Тимиря́зевская ли́ния) is a line of the Moscow Metro. It was first opened in 1983 as the Serpukhovsky radius and was extended north through the centre in the late 1980's before extending north as the Timiryazevsky radius during the early 1990s. Presently it is the World's longest subway line, cutting the city of Moscow on a north-south axis.
public transportation and "acts of violence"
- strategy of tension
- false flags
- improvised explosive hardware
- An improvised explosive device (IED) is the common name for explosive devices, often used in terrorism, unconventional warfare or asymmetrical warfare by terrorists, guerrillas or commando forces in a theater of operations. In the 2003–present Iraq War, insurgents have made the IED one of their main weapons against coalition forces. IEDs are sometimes referred to by the press as roadside bombs.
