Moderation of the new pictures

We are community-based moderation website, and every member who has a few "most liked" awards can vote to approve or decline new pictures. Every picture needs to pass this process - to receive positive votes to be admitted. This democratic process helps to further build Trainspo by only having high quality pictures that is achieved by providing the voting ability to those who have uploaded pictures that have been liked by the most members.

If your picture has not been accepted for a long time (more than one week), it is best to upload another one, if you want to free up your slots. We do not delete unapproved pictures. They remain in your personal gallery

Stories

Each story should be a detailed comment about the vehicle or place shown in the picture. To add a story, you need to:

1. Upload your picture and wait for it to be approved, or just pick an existing picture in your gallery.
2. Write a story about something interesting that is shown in the picture. It can be your personal story, a news story about the vehicle, historical facts about the place, etc.
3. Hover your mouse over this comment and click the "story" link.



In addition, you can promote other member's comments as stories. Just find an interesting comment that can also be a story, and click the "story" link. When a few promotions are received, the story will be published on the main page. Please note that it must be an original comment, without any coping from the other sources.

Locations states.

Your picture location pin can be in three colors: yellow, green, or blue.

The blue location pin means that you have uploaded a picture with GPS data, and Trainspo automatically detects its coordinates. That's perfect!

The green location pin appears if your location is verified. This means that we have looked for the name that you entered and have successfully matched your input with our database. It is very important to make your location verified, because it is only in that way that the picture can be found by searching the location name. Otherwise, it will be excluded from the search results.

The yellow pin means that you entered a location that does not exist in our database. In this case, we are asking you to edit your picture again and look more closely at the location helper pop-up in order to find the name that you need. Make sure that the selected country is correct.



If your location name is absent in the helper, you can help us with adding it to the database. Read the instructions below.

Adding a new location to the Trainspo database.

We use the GeoNames database for determining the names and GPS coordinates of geo locations. If you are adding a new picture and cannot add a verified location for it, you need to add it to GeoNames first. Here is a description as to how you can create it. For example, if you want to add "Zweisimmen station".

1. You need to register for a GeoNames account in order to add items to the database.
2. Go to the main page and search for a city "Zweisimmen". You need this in order to open a map close to the "Zweisimmen station".
3. Click the first pin in the search results and scroll and zoom the map to find "Zweisimmen station".
4. If you find it, select "insert new name" in the left menu, and click the rails or at the station building on the map. 5. Fill in the name field as "Zweisimmen station", select the class as "spot, building, farm", and select the code as "railroad station".
6. Then, click "save" and you are finished.

Here more detailed documentation from GeoNames.

Thereafter, you'll need to wait about 1-2 days for the synchronizing of our database with GeoNames. Subsequently, you can edit your picture again and enter the location that you added in order to change it to the "verified" state.

GeoNames has many railroad states for the locations. Therefore, if you have a lot of time, you can add a detailed map of the railways points.