Model railway clubs

[Fizzie41]

After mapping a model railway club a few days ago, I looked around in vain for a page for them, but found nothing, except for a discussion from Germany that agreed that club=model_railway would be the best option:

Modellbahnschauanlagen

Ich befasse mich mal wieder mit der Eisenbahn. Aktuell mit den Modellen. Es gibt eine große Anzahl von Vereinen, die große Modellbahnanlage bzw. Schauanlagen besitzen. Bekannteste ist wohl das Miniatur Wunderland Hamburg. Im Wiki findetman für railway=miniature eine sehr allgemein gehaltene Definition: “Kleinere Bahnen, die oftmals als Touristenattraktion benutzt werden”. Darunter kann man das Wunderland fassen, aber auch eine Achterbahn. Wie soll ich Schauanlagen, die maßstäblich die Wirklichke…

So I created one!: Tag:club=model_railway - OpenStreetMap Wiki

I hope the model railroaders approve, but as always, all comments, additions or corrections are welcome!

[arctic-rocinante]

Nice! There’s one I’m aware of that’s currently just a tourism=attraction, so giving it a more specific tag will be satisfying

Just to confirm, would you say this tag is applicable when the trains are large enough to sit on? Or only the smaller kind that can be held in one’s hand?

[dieterdreist]

club is fine for clubs (traditionally common in some regions), but it is not a generic tag for miniature railways installations. There are also commercial model railways that are not organized as clubs, but are open to the public (for a fee or for free), either as a standalone attraction, e.g. https://www.miniatur-wunderland.com/
or inside a museum e.g. a small one here https://www.boxenstop-tuebingen.de/
I propose to add the length of rails as a property (the latter has 104m of rail, the former, world‘s largest according to their site, has 15400m of tracks.
I think leisure=miniature_railwaymodel_railway could eventually be a good fit for these although use is still a bit limited leisure=miniature_railway | Tags | OpenStreetMap Taginfo

There are also vending machines that sell the service of running a model train for a minute or so, inside a glass box:

[Fizzie41]

@arctic-rocinante

would you say this tag is applicable when the trains are large enough to sit on?

They are currently mapped as Tag:railway=miniature - OpenStreetMap Wiki.

Thanks for making me remember that I was also going to cross-reference both pages to each other!

[Fizzie41]

@dieterdreist

leisure=miniature_railway could eventually be a good fit for these although use is still a bit limited

2 vs 11269 Tag:railway=miniature - OpenStreetMap Wiki ?

[Fizzie41]

@dieterdreist

as a standalone attraction, e.g. https://www.miniatur-wunderland.com/

I think that would be tourist=attraction (that I believe it currently is)

@dieterdreist

vending machines that sell the service of running a model train for a minute or so, inside a glass box:

Don’t know what you’d call those, but no, definitely not a club.

[dieterdreist]

@Fizzie41

2 vs 11269 Tag:railway=miniature - OpenStreetMap Wiki ?

correct, this should have been leisure=model_railway, I updated the paragraph.

@Fizzie41

I think that would be tourist=attraction (that I believe it currently is)

IMHO the tag tourism=attraction is not a semantic tag that describes the nature of the thing, more a kind of a placeholder for the feature tag (or to be used additionally) and somehow stating “this is important”