[Tagging] Advice & clarification of the railway tracks=* tag required.

[Dave F.]

Hi

A user in GB has been editing railway lines by adding tracks=4 even 
though each individual track has been mapped:

www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/174899570

 From the railway page of the wiki:

"When modeling multi-track parallel railway lines in close proximity 
they can either be modeled as a single way with tracks=*, or as a number 
of parallel ways."
"The tracks=* tag should be used to record the number of tracks with a 
default value of 1 being assumed where this is not supplied. "

In the example he's tagged each way with tracks=4. Going on what the 
wiki says this implies there are a total of 16 tracks on the ground. 
This seems incorrect tagging to me.

I've contacted him directly & received a reply but he appears to think 
his way is correct & the wiki wrong, so I'm posting here for advice & 
clarification.

Cheers
Dave F.
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