Hi Eckhard,

please do no remove any of the tags, if there isn't a valid reason. When something is tagged with railway=rail, it means that these are tracks are full size (normal gauge for the country) and carry passenger or freight.

Removing the railway=rail would be considered "tagging for the renderer", which is not a good practise. The rail is correctly tagged, when it's normal gauge and when there's a reason for the "railway:preserved=yes", it being a historically preserved railway.

If it's not normal gauge but something else, please check the wiki [1] for possible values.

The preserved information is currently NOT supposed to be rendered differently, but provide additional information about that bit of track.

Kai

[1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/DE:Key:railway

Hi Kai, does it mean that I have to delete the railway=rail tag? I fear that will let the track disappear in Openstreetmap? JOSM raises several warnings: 

Am Fr., 21. Juni 2024 um 12:31 Uhr schrieb Kai Michael Poppe <osm@poppe.dev>:

Hello Eckhard,

the way you linked is railway:preserved=yes, but also railway=rail. The
railway=-tagging always takes precedence over rendering as preserved.

Kai

On 21.06.2024 09:32, Eckhard M wrote:
> Hi all, which tags are needed to render a railway as a preserved track
> ( "Museumsbahn") ? Or what is the best way to show a draisine track in
> OpenRailwayMap? For instance
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/33651730 is not shown in ORM and I
> wonder why.
>
> Best, Eckhard
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