[OSM-talk] wikiproject rail?

[Richard Fairhurst]

Steve Chilton wrote (quoted in full because it went to me rather than  
the list by mistake):

> Don't know what others think, but I have been doing some rail lines from
> Landsat, and have done lines out of North London into Hertfordshire this
> way (even easier with NickW's bringing down of Landsat to JOSM). Where
> one has local knowledge I think this works fine, except v difficult in
> heavily built-up areas. Also completed the lines through New Forest this
> way (not yet tagged).

Do we have a consensus on whether railways should be one line/way per  
'railway', or one per track? In other words, is (say) the Great  
Western Main Line from London to Reading drawn as four lines (up slow,  
up fast, down slow, down fast) or one?

(I vote for the easy option. But I'm sure that recruiting a few  
railway enthusiasts to OSM could result in OpenQuailMap - cf  
http://www.trackmaps.co.uk/ .)

cheers
Richard