[OSM-talk] railway=narrow_gauge

[Simon Hewison]

Nick wrote:
> In article <68e55ace0706140830u71ad6781g2fad81c6e6e24eaa at mail.gmail.com>,
> Abigail Brady <morwen at evilmagic.org> wrote:
>> This also happens with heritage railways that have been marked
>> railway=preserved.  It's pretty weird to look at.  I guess mapnik just
>> wants preserved|narrow_guage adding to its pattern.
> 
> Is there any particular reason why we don't have railway=single and
> railway=double or similar?

That's why we've got tracks=2

railway=rail; tracks=2

or on the big main lines with up slow, up fast, down fast, down slow sort of 
arrangement

railway=rail; tracks=4

How the renderers decide to render it is entirely up to them.

This saves a lot of tedious drawing of multiple ways for each track; unless 
some mapper is seriously into track diagrams, and wanting to know where each 
and every point, turnout and crossover is, it will probably suffice.

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Simon Hewison