<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">hello,<br>thanks, yes I think "bridge" describes it better than "building" in this case: http://bit.ly/egFnU8<br><br>regards<br>--oscar<br><br>--- On <b>Mon, 3/14/11, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <i><dieterdreist@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist@gmail.com><br>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] layer tag issue in mapnik settings?<br>To: "Mike N" <niceman@att.net><br>Cc: talk@openstreetmap.org<br>Date: Monday, March 14, 2011, 11:57 AM<br><br><div class="plainMail">2011/3/14 Mike N <<a ymailto="mailto:niceman@att.net" href="/mc/compose?to=niceman@att.net">niceman@att.net</a>>:<br>> On 3/13/2011 7:09 PM, Richard Mann wrote:<br>>><br>>> Best advice is to turn it into a pedestrian
bridge<br>>> (highway=footway+bridge=yes+layer=1)<br>><br>> I've used highway=pedestrian+bridge=yes+layer=1 , which also seems to fit<br>> the Wiki definition.<br><br><br>IMHO highway=pedestrian is not correct (it is used for streets that<br>are "pedestrianalized"), I'd go for highway=footway as suggested by<br>Richard Mann.<br><br>Mapnik has chosen not to cover highways by buildings, and there is no<br>way to override this by layers. I am not sure that the T@H approach is<br>better, because the don't display the covered highway, so it remains<br>unclear whether your way is obstructed by the building or not.<br><br>Have a look at the covered-proposal (currently not rendered). This<br>would be done by putting covered=yes on the way-segment underneath the<br>building.<br><br>cheers,<br>Martin<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>talk mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org"
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