[OSM-talk] railway=narrow_gauge

Nick usenet at tenhairypenguins.co.uk
Thu Jun 14 18:35:03 BST 2007


In article <46716915.3060901 at zymurgy.org>,
Simon Hewison  <simon at zymurgy.org> wrote:
>> 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.

Ah - so it's the renderers that aren't displaying correctly rather than
the mapping.

It would be nice to have some distinctions - for example:

thick black line = double track
white/black dashed line = single track
line with cross-ticks = tramway
thin black line = siding
double thin black line = railway at high zoom levels

or whatever.

I notice that the tracks= tag isn't mentioned anywhere on the wiki...

Nick





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