Putting tracks=1 on multiple parallel tracks is also potentially misleading. It's a method of tagging that's been superseded by drawing each line separately.
So I took to adding passenger_lines=N, to avoid a compatability conflict. I only did N=1 or N>=4, though. I'd suggest converting the tagging to tracks=1+passenger_lines=2. Richard On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 8:40 AM, Maarten Deen <[email protected]> wrote: > I have asked WJtW about this in june this year but received no answer. > Then I saw user BAGgeraar remove the tracks tag so I asked him about it and > he too asked WJtW and received no answer. > On the german forum there is a thread [1] about it also indicating it is a > superfluous tag when all tracks are mapped. > > It borders on vandalism. > > [1] <http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=30099> > > Regards, > Maarten > > > On 2015-10-07 09:20, Colin Smale wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> 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. >> >> I have sent two messages explaining as above and requesting that they >> review this tagging, but no response so far. I noticed that another >> mapper has also added a comment to at least one changeset with the >> same intent. >> >> Any ideas how we can stop this behaviour, and repair the "damage"? >> >> //colin >> >> [1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/WJtW >> >> [2] http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/34574683 >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >> > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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