Under the UK Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 2000 request FOI2020/00232 Network Rail have published Network Model Engineering Line of Route (ELR) offsets as WG84 longitude and latitude links.
These scripts extracts these links convert these to link and point GeoJSON layers. The script also creates ESRI Shape files.
Once the dependencies to create the report are met run the script:
$ ./prepublish
This will download the report and create ESRI Shape files in the shp, as well as a Leaflet JavaScript visualisation using the network model data in GeoJSON format.
These are environment and project dependencies.
For ease of use manage package python packages dependencies with a local virtual environment venv:
$ virtualenv venv
$ source venv/bin/activate
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
$ sudo apt install virtualenv
FOI reference data:
The data is protected under copyright as set out here.
This indicates that the data may be used for activities such as private study and non-commerial research and any other purpose authorised by exception in current law. Any other re-use such as commerical publication would require permission of the copyright holder.