[Tagging] How To Tag Coastlines That Are Also Cliffs?

[Emilie Laffray]

On 2 May 2010 16:27, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2010/5/2 Zeke Farwell <ezekielf at gmail.com>:
> > Thanks for all the ideas.  Definitely seems like natural=coastline;cliff
> is
> > a bad idea and may screw up coastline rendering.
>
>
> on the other hand use of separators on coastlines could push
> integration of multiple feature values into the main tools (or maybe
> by preprocessing -> for all data consuming applications). I'm not a
> programmer but I think it would be very easy to duplicate a node/way
> and separate 2 tags which are marked by a ;-separator before
> continuing to process the data in a normal way. More complicated (and
> zoom-dependant) it would be to generate auto-offsets -> could be done
> individually with custom rules for it.
>

Or it could make the life of those same programmers a perfect nightmare.
Keeping the key "clean" seems to me to be the best solution.

Emilie Laffray
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