On 21/05/2019 12:18, Mark Goodge wrote:
> ...
From a mapping perspective, therefore, there are two questions which
need to be asked:
1. Was the railway originally constructed purely for leisure purposes?
2. Are the locomotives intended to be models or replicas of full-size
locomotives (or
On 20/05/2019 22:13, jc...@mail.com wrote:
On 18/05/2019 18:03, Mark Goodge wrote:
The OSM wiki is correct to distinguish between miniature railways (ie,
ridable models) and small gauge "real" railways, as this reflects usage
among railway engineers and enthusiasts in the non-mapping
On 18/05/2019 18:03, Mark Goodge wrote:
> Other 15" railways in the UK (eg, the Evesham Vale Light Railway) are
> mostly tagged as railway=narrow_gauge.
How do you come to this conclusion? Using the list of 15" railways on Wikipedia,
(including the retagged Rhiw Valley) on OSM in the UK are
18 May 2019, 19:03 by m...@good-stuff.co.uk:
> I think the wiki age for Tag:railway=miniature needs updating to remove the
> spurious distinct between minimum and narrow gauge, and make it consistent
> with the usage defined on the main page for Key:railway itself.
>
railway=miniature page
Why not use the tag 'gauge' (as well as the tag 'railway'), which enables you
to be more explicit than 'minimum'? It has getting-on-for 2 million uses.
Presumably 'minimum' will vary across the globe anyway.
(Sorry if this doesn't reply to the thread. It's my first post. If it doesn't
I'll
On 18/05/2019 16:35, Martin Wynne wrote:
Wikipedia suggests that a "miniature railway" is one using rideable
*models* of real railways, which is not the case for the RVLR:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum-gauge_railway
Should I change the tag to railway=minimum_gauge, bearing in
I refer to the Rhiw Valley Light Railway:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/52.61639/-3.26766
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5712937
This is a private 15" gauge railway which holds regular open days for
the public:
http://rvlr.co.uk/
It is currently tagged as railway=miniature.
7 matches
Mail list logo