Exactly, this is the core of the "complaint" about WJtW's work.
However, tracks=* is an accepted shortcut, somewhere between a single way for the whole group and mapping individual tracks. Getting the individual tracks right, with all the points/switches, sidings, crossovers etc is a helluva job. It is no surprise that people use a single way for a group of tracks as a first-order approximation. Adding tracks=N to that is not wrong, it's just incomplete. //colin On 2015-10-10 13:37, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 2:20 AM, Colin Smale <[email protected]> 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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