Oh by the way, user WJtW is still at it, most recently in Italy, filling in loads of detail tags on railways. No idea where the information comes from. But every segment he touches has tracks=N added, often with N>1 on routes already mapped with individual tracks.
@Michael Reichart, did you get a response from DWG about a possible block on this user? //colin On 2015-10-10 13:46, Colin Smale wrote: > 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 <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. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
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