Hah speaking of lanes..
Why does the osm wiki page for `leisure=track` list `lanes=*` under the “useful 
combination” section.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:leisure=track 
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:leisure=track>

I don’t believe I’ve ever seen an athletics track that allowed motorized 
vehicles to drive around it.

It kind of makes one question whether a community edited wiki is a good way to 
standardize a tagging scheme intended to produce a coherant mapping dataset.  
Bold suggestion: maybe the people who write the tools should just get together 
over beers and decide what all the tags should be.  I’ll buy!

Until then, I think it would be great if people are nicer to one another, 
respect each other’s viewpoints, be willing to be wrong, and don't take either 
the established tagging or the wiki too seriously.  Everything in OSM is broken 
to some degree, but everything in OSM can be improved if people care enough to 
do so.

Thanks, Bryan

p.s. Yes iD does suggest the lanes tag on athletic tracks based on this wiki 
page.  Don’t hate me.
p.p.s.  It’s been this way at least 4 years and nobody has complained.



> On May 13, 2018, at 4:32 PM, Mateusz Konieczny <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> 13. May 2018 20:58 by [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>:
> 
> On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 1:36 PM, Johnparis <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Back to this again, Paul. It is getting tiresome. If you don't like how the 
> tag is defined, create a new one. Don't vandalize the old one.
> 
> Improvement=vandalism.  Got it.
> 
> 
> There is a clear consensus that redefining lanes tag is not considered to be 
> an improvement.
> 
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