[OSM-talk] railway=narrow_gauge

[Matthias Julius]

Adrian Frith <adrian at frith.co.za> writes:

> Perhaps the problem is that narrow-gauge railways are often drawn differently 
> on maps because a railway being narrow-gauge usually indicates that it is 
> special-purpose in some way: historical or touristic or funicular or only 
> used by some specific industry. Generally, if a railway were just a normal 
> part of the mainline network, it would long ago have been relaid at the 
> prevailing gauge (barring special other circumstances).
>
> So perhaps we need to analyse further *why* we might want to render 
> narrow-gauge railways differently, and then add *that* data to the model?
> Maybe just a "railway=special_purpose" value?

I think there should be a more general classification of railways
according to their significance.  Some side track doesn't need to be
rendered the same way as a main line.  And this is independent from
the gauge or the number of tracks.

Matthias