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
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
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=51.78185298480979lon=-0.5093040346167376zoom=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.
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
