[Tagging] non-trivial color schemes

[Richard Welty]

On 12/18/12 4:30 PM, Malcolm Herring wrote:
> On 18/12/2012 21:16, Frederik Ramm wrote:
>> OpenSeaMap have tons of funny tags for colour-coded buoys, and they even
>> have an editor plugin for JOSM where you can visually compile a buoy
>> layout and have the plugin set the right tags - maybe some of their work
>> can be applied here.
>
> Indeed we do! Objects that have variable colour schemes have a pair of 
> attribute tags in the form "...:colour=<list of colours>" and 
> "...:colour_pattern=<list of patterns>
>
> Examples of pattern values are horizontal(stripes), vertical, 
> diagonal, squared, border, etc.
if there's something that already exists that's suitable, i have no 
interest in reinvention of the wheel.

link to the spec?

thanks,
     richard