[OSM-talk] railway=narrow_gauge

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On 6/19/07, Nick <usenet at tenhairypenguins.co.uk> wrote:
> In article <2fc2c5f10706181114o34bceea7o496cc6f28b4cefac at mail.gmail.com>,
> Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com> wrote:
> >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 disagree entirely.
>
> What it is, is a narrow-gauge railway. Therefore it should be tagged as
> such.

We tag racetracks as something else, we tag roads at airports
something else. I'm just saying we should store the gauge seperatly,
so we can have more values:

railway=rail
gauge=narrow-uk|narrow-au|narrow-us|wide|normal-eu|custom|44.96inches

because for 99% of purposes it's not relevent and this way we don't
have to teach every renderer the size of every possible railway in the
world...

> You don't tag roads as tourist roads, do you?

There are cases where we tag non-public roads as what they're for...

Have a nice day,
-- 
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com> http://svana.org/kleptog/