[Tagging] What's the proper way to map multiple rail tracks in a street?

Cartinus cartinus at xs4all.nl
Wed Jun 23 12:33:37 BST 2010


On Wednesday 23 June 2010 11:24:19 Nathan Edgars II wrote:
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=39.946466&lon=-75.124744&zoom=18&layers=B
>000FTF Cooper Street and Delaware Avenue are four-lane roads, with light
> rail/tram tracks in the outer lanes. Obviously one could simply apply
> railway=* to the highway, but that would not show the individual
> tracks. So I drew the tracks in their individual positions, but at
> high zooms it renders with the tracks completely outside the roadway.
> It would not be correct to draw two roadways, one in each direction
> (like on 4th Street to the east), since, unlike 4th Street, these are
> single carriageways.

I would use:
railway=*
tracks=2

-- 
m.v.g.,
Cartinus




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