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

Nathan Edgars II neroute2 at gmail.com
Wed Jun 23 23:18:16 BST 2010


On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 7:33 AM, Cartinus <cartinus at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 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

Except that then you don't have the individual positions of the tracks.




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