<div dir="ltr">Putting tracks=1 on multiple parallel tracks is also potentially misleading. It's a method of tagging that's been superseded by drawing each line separately.<div><br></div><div>So I took to adding passenger_lines=N, to avoid a compatability conflict. I only did N=1 or N>=4, though.</div><div><br></div><div>I'd suggest converting the tagging to tracks=1+passenger_lines=2.</div><div><br></div><div>Richard</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 8:40 AM, Maarten Deen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mdeen@xs4all.nl" target="_blank">mdeen@xs4all.nl</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I have asked WJtW about this in june this year but received no answer. Then I saw user BAGgeraar remove the tracks tag so I asked him about it and he too asked WJtW and received no answer.<br>
On the german forum there is a thread [1] about it also indicating it is a superfluous tag when all tracks are mapped.<br>
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It borders on vandalism.<br>
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[1] <<a href="http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=30099" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=30099</a>><br>
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Regards,<br>
Maarten<div><div class="h5"><br>
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On 2015-10-07 09:20, Colin Smale wrote:<br>
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Hi,<br>
<br>
User WJtW[1] has been making large numbers of edits to railways across<br>
Europe in the past few months, all with the changeset comment<br>
"Electrified". Most of them are adding tags like gauge=1435 which may<br>
well be right (although I have no idea of his source for this).<br>
However on many occasions he has added tracks=N to the individual<br>
tracks where they are already mapped as N separate tracks. According<br>
to the wiki this should now be interpreted as N*N tracks. For example,<br>
the Channel Tunnel Rail Link south-east of London, is composed of two<br>
tracks (see [2] for a sample way). They are now both tagged with<br>
tracks=2, saying that each way represents 2 tracks, suggesting there<br>
are 4 in total, which is wrong.<br>
<br>
I have sent two messages explaining as above and requesting that they<br>
review this tagging, but no response so far. I noticed that another<br>
mapper has also added a comment to at least one changeset with the<br>
same intent.<br>
<br>
Any ideas how we can stop this behaviour, and repair the "damage"?<br>
<br>
//colin<br>
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[1] <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/WJtW" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/WJtW</a><br>
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[2] <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/34574683" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/34574683</a><br></div></div>
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