[Tagging] Using relations to group highways

Matthias Julius lists at julius-net.net
Thu Jan 7 19:06:50 GMT 2010


John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> writes:

> 2010/1/7 Matthias Julius <lists at julius-net.net>:
>> John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Well relations aren't ways, the ways go through/under/ buildings.
>>
>> Do they?  Did I miss something?  Last I know is that they are rendered
>> on top of buildings even if they are on a lower layer.
>
> How is that rendering bug related to using relations to group ways?

>From a previous post of yours:

,----
| As for the shields this is deviating from the topic at hand but for it
| the shield can be derived from the lookup table on the wiki and then
| extra preprossesing in osm2pgsql to assign a shield based on admin
| polygons + info from the lookup table
`----

If osm2pgsql can be taught to detect in which admin polygon a way is
maybe it can then also notice when a way intersects a building.  Or
any other area.

Matthias




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