[OSM-talk] railway=narrow_gauge

[Nick]

In article <68e55ace0706140830u71ad6781g2fad81c6e6e24eaa at mail.gmail.com>,
Abigail Brady <morwen at evilmagic.org> wrote:
>This also happens with heritage railways that have been marked
>railway=preserved.  It's pretty weird to look at.  I guess mapnik just
>wants preserved|narrow_guage adding to its pattern.

Is there any particular reason why we don't have railway=single and
railway=double or similar?

The lack of this causes some problems where the way can either indicate
a double line out in the open country or a single line in a station
area: for example look at the centre of Cambridge on the osmarender
layer and how the sidings are rendered far too heavily:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html?lat=52.203304&lon=0.124846&zoom=10

Nick