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

[Cartinus]

On Thursday 24 June 2010 00:18:16 Nathan Edgars II wrote:
> 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&layer
> >>s=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.

You have to choose between simple modelling (like a multi-lane road is a 
single line) or high accuracy mapping (map each track exactly where it is) 
else you get a mess with high zoom rendering. This is the problem you 
yourself saw in your first post in this thread. So the "solution" is simple: 
pick one option. I told you which one I would pick. Simple not?

-- 
m.v.g.,
Cartinus