On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 12:18 +0100, Richard Mann wrote:
> While I like the idea of marking individual railway tracks as separate ways, 
> I foresee a problem for the renderers if we don't tell them how many tracks 
> are adjacent. If a renderer makes a distinction between tracks=1 and 
> tracks=2, and we've marked two separate adjacent ways with tracks=1, then 
> we'll just end up with two single tracks on top of each other at medium zooms.

It seems like OSM is already quite well-suited to handling this problem
with the tools already available.  See the Metropolitan Area Express
system in Portland, here's a particularly good example from the
neighborhood by the high school I went to growing up.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=45.5107&lon=-122.8481&zoom=14&layers=0B00FTF


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