I could not find any missing tracks on osm in this area. Please note that the appearance of tracks=* doesn't necessarily coincides with merging of ways because not everyone has used this tag in the way described in the wiki.

Hi Martin,
I did not intend to delete any tracks. If I did so it must have been by mistake. Then please show me an example where a track is now missing! I also do not use tracks=2 anymore but did so in earlier times. By doing this I was trying to add the information of the number of tracks per railway line. For this purpose I late adopted the tag passenger_lines.

I fixed this. Thanks for letting me know.

One thing making it complicated is that within stations of around junctions the number of tracks cannot be exacly determinded which I thind is not necessary. Stations an juctions do not need this tag. But since it is also difficult to exacly distinguish between stations and open lines the information will alway stay a little bit fuzzy which may be an annoyance for people who wand everything to be exact. The the topic is only interesting to a few people since railway infrastructure is not to be used by the general public instead of roads for example. However since this is a factor of capacity the number of tracks of certain rail lines receives some media coverage at least in Germany and Switzerland so I thind it is appropriate to have the information also in osm.

Well, the story is indeed a little bit longer: Originally in osm there was one way for a railway line and tracks=* to indicate the number of tracks, but with two meanings: 1. the way represents * tracks and 2. the rail line has * tracks. This is not the same as one can see after starting to draw a way for each track. A few people including me were trying to still use the tracks tag in its second meaning but since the other one had been already fixed in the wiki this was considered vandalism and was reverted. That is why the passenger_lines track was invented for the same purpose. So my former arguments for the tracks tag are the same as now for the passenger_lines tag which I now use with approval of at least the german admins. After this I entered a wiki article and try to map the number of tracks per line in different parts of the world in order to find out if it will be accepted or at least tolerated. I admit that this is not a trivial thing but the only alternativ for me would be to use a printed atlas which I thind osm should aim to replace.

This is intended to tell that the 4 lines belong together to one route having 4 tracks. I tried to make a wiki entry for that and wrote something about this topic in my diary. I think the number of tracks is one of the most important features of a railway line besides gauge and electrification. However because this information does not fit perfectly to mapping the complete track network instead of the rail network there seems to be no easy solution. In this case I am trying to continue the work of the one who invented this tag although I am not wery happy with the verbalisation. Fortunately there is a rendering by ITO which i.E. helped to find my spelling error.

I corrected the spelling of a key I added myself in the changeset before. Sorry - I should have mentioned this.

Ich habe die Strecke Gramzow-Damme wieder von abandoned auf preserved geändert, da sie unverändert im Museumsbetrieb befahren wird.

... ist doch alles gefunden. Ich werde das wieder reparieren. Die Punkte sind beim reverten nicht wieder gelöscht worden.
Danke für die Info und viele Grüße

Oh sorry! Das passiert wenn das Hochladen einer Änderung nicht abgeschlossen wird und ich es nochmal versuche. Oder ein Objekt ist aus Versehen gelöscht worden. Meine Änderungen sind auch noch von einem admin zurückgesetzt worden, sodass evtl. dadurch ein Konflikt provoziert wurde. Ich kann diese Punkte nicht finden. Bitte beschreibe genauer, wo die sind und was das gewesen sein könnte. Ich versuche dann gerne, das wieder in Ordnung zu bringen!

Welches Problem entsteht durch diese "falsche" Verwendung? Was kommt dabei durcheinander?

Ich warte immer noch auf eine Erklärung, was für einen Schaden der tag track=* bei mehrgleisigen Strecken anrichtet. Ich habe bisher noch nichts dergleichen gefunden?? Bitte um Erläuterung!