[OSM-talk] railway=narrow_gauge

[Matthias Julius]

"Martijn van Oosterhout" <kleptog at gmail.com> writes:

> 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).

I guess in a global perspective you are right.  In general the gauge
of a railway has nothing to do with its status as a tourist
attraction.  This connection maybe only exists in Germany or even only
in parts of it.  At least I am used to something like "Hey, there is a
narrow gauge railway.  Let's go there and have a ride."

As for tagging I agree with Andy.  They all should be railway=rail.
And then there should be some classification similar to roads.

Matthias