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

[Dave F.]

On 07/08/2012 23:18, Richard Mann wrote:
> I guess that'll be me.
> The total number of tracks is a useful piece of data,

In most of your edits you have the total number of tracks as they're 
individually mapped.

> whereas tracks=1 on the four individual tracks is useless.

No, because as Alan & the wiki says, as multiple railways tracks are 
still being mapped with a single way it's used to clarify exactly how 
many tracks it represents. (1x4 = 4 tracks= correct; 4x4=16 tracks = 
incorrect)

> I don't really mind where the information is stored; the tracks tag 
> looked like a sensible place to me (and indeed was already being used 
> in this way in some places).
>

You've appear to have grabbed the wrong end of the stick over this. If a 
way that represents one track has a tracks=4 tag then that is incorrect.

DaveF.