[OSM-talk] User WJtW - railway track counts

[Colin Smale]

Hi, 

User WJtW[1] has been making large numbers of edits to railways across
Europe in the past few months, all with the changeset comment
"Electrified". Most of them are adding tags like gauge=1435 which may
well be right (although I have no idea of his source for this). However
on many occasions he has added tracks=N to the individual tracks where
they are already mapped as N separate tracks. According to the wiki this
should now be interpreted as N*N tracks. For example, the Channel Tunnel
Rail Link south-east of London, is composed of two tracks (see [2] for a
sample way). They are now both tagged with tracks=2, saying that each
way represents 2 tracks, suggesting there are 4 in total, which is
wrong. 

I have sent two messages explaining as above and requesting that they
review this tagging, but no response so far. I noticed that another
mapper has also added a comment to at least one changeset with the same
intent. 

Any ideas how we can stop this behaviour, and repair the "damage"? 

//colin 

[1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/WJtW 

[2] http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/34574683 
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