[OSM-talk] railway=narrow_gauge

[Andy Robinson]

Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
>Sent: 18 June 2007 7:14 PM
>To: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] railway=narrow_gauge
>
>On 6/18/07, Matthias Julius <lists at julius-net.net> wrote:
>> "Martijn van Oosterhout" <kleptog at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > But why do we care at all about the gauge? Do you want to render it
>differently?
>>
>> Yes, it would be good to render them differently.  At least in Germany
>> narrow gauge railways are very local, are often steam powered and are
>> usually tourist attractions.
>
>So, we should also make a railway=wide_gauge for countries where such
>railways are wider than the normal gauge?
>
>This is silly. If you want to mark such railways, make a
>railway=tourist or railway=not_normal_rail. In other words, say what
>it is, rather than using some tag that's completely unrelated (like
>gauge).

It's much more logical though if you want it rendered by default to set all
types of railway, regardless of gauge, as railway=rail and then add if you
so desire the gauge= information. At some point the renderers can look up
the additional gauge info to make a more subtle rendering.

Cheers

Andy

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk