[talk-au] How to tag a non-existent road

Matt White mattwhite at iinet.com.au
Mon Oct 12 08:12:40 BST 2009


John Smith wrote:
> 2009/10/12 Ross Scanlon <info at 4x4falcon.com>:
>   
>> If it's from the DCDB data then highway=gazetted_road and don't put anything in the renderer to show them.
>>     
>
> At the moment it's suggested to use highway=road and I was thinking of
> doing a special style sheet for mapnik to highlight these sorts of
> roads so they'd be easier to find to verify, your suggestion would be
> fine too, but we still need some other tag then to "know" they don't
> exist, compared to haven't been checked.
>
>   
>> They will then show up in the editors and people can then map them using gps etc when able.
>>     
>
> Once we have figured out what we can submit patches so they show up
> differently if they don't exist, compared to maybe exist.
>   
highway=ghost_road

I just made that up... so don't actually use :)




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