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<font face="Arial">Hi<br>
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A user in GB has been editing railway lines by adding tracks=4
even though each individual track has been mapped:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/174899570">www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/174899570</a><br>
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From the railway page of the wiki:<br>
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"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."<br>
"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. "<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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Cheers<br>
Dave F.</font>
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