[OSM-talk] User WJtW - railway track counts

[Richard Mann]

Putting tracks=1 on multiple parallel tracks is also potentially
misleading. It's a method of tagging that's been superseded by drawing each
line separately.

So I took to adding passenger_lines=N, to avoid a compatability conflict. I
only did N=1 or N>=4, though.

I'd suggest converting the tagging to tracks=1+passenger_lines=2.

Richard

On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 8:40 AM, Maarten Deen <mdeen at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> I have asked WJtW about this in june this year but received no answer.
> Then I saw user BAGgeraar remove the tracks tag so I asked him about it and
> he too asked WJtW and received no answer.
> On the german forum there is a thread [1] about it also indicating it is a
> superfluous tag when all tracks are mapped.
>
> It borders on vandalism.
>
> [1] <http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=30099>
>
> Regards,
> Maarten
>
>
> On 2015-10-07 09:20, Colin Smale wrote:
>
>> 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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