[Talk-us] Highway Tagging Consensus to Improve OSM (and address some of 41 latitude's concerns)

Alex Mauer hawke at hawkesnest.net
Tue Oct 26 19:06:43 BST 2010


On 10/26/2010 12:42 PM, Anthony wrote:
> As for the question of tagging, basically you can use relations, or
> you can hack something up to simulate relations (specifically, to
> handle the very common situation where there is more than one route
> using the same way) without actually using relations.

I haven’t seen anyone say that route relations are not the way to go. 
Have you?

> Then there's the question of how to render it.  Probably something to
> discuss on a different list, like a mapnik-specific one.

Why?  It’s a mostly US-specific problem, though I hear that at least 
shield rendering is also desired in Australia.

—Alex Mauer “hawke”




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