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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">I'm unsure of the difference between
      passenger_lines=* & tracks=*. <br>
      <br>
      Reading the wiki page, it appears the writer is confused as well,
      stating in the last paragraph, that the 'passenger' bit is
      redundant as "all kinds of tracks connecting the same railway
      stations or junction should be counted with no regard to the train
      services running on it." & it's a "workaround" for tracks.<br>
      <br>
      Cheers<br>
      Dave F.<br>
      <br>
      <br>
      <br>
      On 07/10/2015 09:24, Richard Mann wrote:<br>
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      <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        been superseded by drawing each line separately.
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        <div>So I took to adding passenger_lines=N, to avoid a
          compatability conflict. I only did N=1 or N>=4, though.</div>
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        <div>I'd suggest converting the tagging to
          tracks=1+passenger_lines=2.</div>
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        <div>Richard</div>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 8:40 AM, Maarten
          Deen <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="mailto:mdeen@xs4all.nl" target="_blank">mdeen@xs4all.nl</a>></span>
          wrote:<br>
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            .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>
            <br>
            It borders on vandalism.<br>
            <br>
            [1] <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=30099"
              rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=30099</a>><br>
            <br>
            Regards,<br>
            Maarten
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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>
                  <br>
                  [1] <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    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 moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/34574683"
                    rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/34574683</a><br>
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