[OSM-newbies] map fearures in XML

[Lars Francke]

Ahhhh..

> To put it in other words: to draw a highway, you need to know/define which
> (XML) tagging is used for highways.

... got it now.

The interpretation of the data is up to the renderer. There are mainly
two out there: Mapnik and Osmarender

Mapnik:
   http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/rendering/mapnik/osm-template.xml
   http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Mapnik
Osmarender:
   http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/rendering/osmarender6/
   http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Osmarender

I'm not sure if this is the current version of Osmarender, I'm
confused by the SVN layout. But in the XML files there are rules which
define how each tag is to be rendered.

Hope this - finally ;-) - helps