Hi
A user in GB has been editing railway lines by adding tracks=4 even
though each individual track has been mapped:
www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/174899570
From the railway page of the wiki:
"When modeling multi-track parallel railway lines in close proximity
they can either be modeled
At 2012-08-07 14:56, Dave F. wrote:
Hi
A user in GB has been editing railway lines by adding tracks=4 even
though each individual track has been mapped:
www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/174899570
From the railway page of the wiki:
"When modeling multi-track parallel railway lines in close proximi
I guess that'll be me.
The total number of tracks is a useful piece of data, whereas tracks=1 on
the four individual tracks is useless. I don't really mind where the
information is stored; the tracks tag looked like a sensible place to me
(and indeed was already being used in this way in some plac
On 07/08/2012 23:18, Richard Mann wrote:
I guess that'll be me.
The total number of tracks is a useful piece of data,
In most of your edits you have the total number of tracks as they're
individually mapped.
whereas tracks=1 on the four individual tracks is useless.
No, because as Alan &
Tracks is actually mostly used in the UK to tag the total number of tracks,
whether the lines have been individually mapped or not (this snapshot is a
few days old):
http://www.itoworld.com/map/14#lat=51.78185298480979&lon=-0.5093040346167376&zoom=7
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On 08/08/2012 00:05, Richard Mann wrote:
...whether the lines have been individually mapped or not:
You're incorrect to think this. As I've said before it's used to clarify
how many tracks each way represents.
http://www.itoworld.com/map/14#lat=51.78185298480979&lon=-0.5093040346167376&zoom
On 2012-08-07 23:56, Dave F. wrote :
Hi
A user in GB has been editing railway lines by adding tracks=4
even though each individual track has been mapped:
www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/174899570
From the rai
