<div dir="ltr"><div>There would be only one database. the layer would just be a filter that would not display the railways.<br></div>if a railway is glued to a node which is moved in another layer, we would have to duplicate it, so no data can be accidentally changed if not visible.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 1:05 PM, Russ Nelson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nelson@crynwr.com" target="_blank">nelson@crynwr.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">Mike Dupont writes:<br>
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 11:08 PM, Russ Nelson <<a href="mailto:nelson@crynwr.com">nelson@crynwr.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> > If the two were layers in the same database, or if they have been<br>
> > tagged using railway=dismantled and railway=abandoned, then it's no<br>
> > problem to look at them, render them, edit them, analyze them<br>
> ><br>
><br>
> I still dont understand why we dont support multiple layers. It would seem<br>
> to be the most logical thing to do and the api could support that so simple<br>
> clients could download a different layers each time.<br>
<br>
</span>The problem is keeping them in synch. If you have a node that<br>
represents the same thing (e.g. the end of a bridge way), and it's in<br>
two layers, what happens when somebody downloads layer 1, and moves<br>
the node? How does it get updated in layer 2? Smarter people than me<br>
have thought about it and seen worse problems.<br>
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