Throughout my #CrossBorderRail work I have not always been very systematic documenting what I learned.

But today I have the first version of a better documentation system ready!

Thanks to support from Europäische Akademie Berlin I have now taken my earlier #CrossBorderRail borders map (the old one can still be found here), and combined the data from that, and from my own journeys, and from from European Commission, Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy, Sippel, L., Maarfield, S., Nolte, J., et al., Comprehensive analysis of the existing cross-border rail transport connections and missing links on the internal EU borders into a more systematic and searchable system.

The key part of that is the new Borders Map. Now when you click a pin you get a standardised fiche of information about the border. At the moment the format of these pages is rather bland, and we will improve that. We will also steadily add more information. And for the borders where photos I have taken are on Flickr already, those albums are integrated into the page about the border as well.

The aim: a complete overview of what there is at each and every border line in Europe. So if anyone wants to put the political problems right, they know the basics so as they can make a start!