On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 2:20 AM, Colin Smale <colin.sm...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > > User WJtW[1] has been making large numbers of edits to railways across > Europe in the past few months, all with the changeset comment > "Electrified". Most of them are adding tags like gauge=1435 which may well > be right (although I have no idea of his source for this). However on many > occasions he has added tracks=N to the individual tracks where they are > already mapped as N separate tracks. According to the wiki this should now > be interpreted as N*N tracks. For example, the Channel Tunnel Rail Link > south-east of London, is composed of two tracks (see [2] for a sample way). > They are now both tagged with tracks=2, saying that each way represents 2 > tracks, suggesting there are 4 in total, which is wrong. > tracks=* shouldn't be used, the tracks should be mapped individually. You can't change tracks arbitrarily like you can change lanes, much the same way one can't change carriageways arbitrarily.
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