[Talk-us] US map rendering (Was: Re: Spot elevations collected as natural=peak and name=Point (height in feet))

[Paul Norman]

As a maintainer of some of the projects listed, I find that you're 
misrepresenting the situation.

On 2019-03-08 11:25 a.m., Kevin Kenny wrote:
> I've sounded out the maintainers of various of the OSM software, and
> get different assessments.
> osm2pgsql - Actively hostile to supporting what I need, contend that
> osm2pgsql is the wrong tool for the job.

This is incorrect. Both maintainers have interest in adding 
functionality for propagating information from relations to ways - as 
opposed to from ways to relations, which is already supported. Neither 
of us have the free time to code it. If someone wanted to take this on, 
we'd help with the related issues like Lua API changes.

> OSM Carto - Little interest, but that's because of the emphasis on
> consistent rendering worldwide, and this is really a project specific
> to North America.

Pictorial road shields require rendering ref from route relations, and 
that is not an easy problem to solve. I'm on record as doubting it can 
be solved given the technical and cartographic constraints the style 
faces. Allowing propagation of information from relations to ways would 
change that.

It sucks to hear that it won't be implemented without someone stepping 
forward with pull requests, but that's the reality of the situation.