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 places).
Richard On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 10:56 PM, Dave F. <dave...@madasafish.com> 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 proximity they > can either be modeled as a single way with tracks=*, or as a number of > parallel ways." > "The tracks=* tag should be used to record the number of tracks with a > default value of 1 being assumed where this is not supplied. " > > In the example he's tagged each way with tracks=4. Going on what the wiki > says this implies there are a total of 16 tracks on the ground. This seems > incorrect tagging to me. > > I've contacted him directly & received a reply but he appears to think his > way is correct & the wiki wrong, so I'm posting here for advice & > clarification. > > Cheers > Dave F. > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > >
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