[OSM-talk] User WJtW - railway track counts
Paul Johnson
baloo at ursamundi.org
Sat Oct 10 11:37:47 UTC 2015
On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 2:20 AM, Colin Smale <colin.smale at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
tracks=* shouldn't be used, the tracks should be mapped individually. You
can't change tracks arbitrarily like you can change lanes, much the same
way one can't change carriageways arbitrarily.
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