[OSM-talk] Detailed tagging scheme for railways - India

[Liz]

On Sun, 23 May 2010, Jens Müller wrote:
> > Rails within a city (which usually serve for mass transit within the
> > city) should be tagged as railway=tram or railway=light_rail. Please add
> > this to the wiki page to prevent somebody else from mapping them on
> > error as railway=rail or something else.
> 
> What do you German S-Bahn lines use? They are used for mass rapid 
> transit. Legally, they are railways.

The massive Sydney rail system used for mass transport is *railway*
They are not light_rail. Tramway implies that the vehicle shares the street 
with the cars and bicycles and trucks.