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

[Andy Townsend]

On 21/03/2019 07:13, Paul Norman via Talk-us wrote:
> 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.
>
Other people (at least me) have also looked at doing it, but it's not 
straightforward.

I looked at it a while back to try and solve one of the issues that got 
merged into https://github.com/openstreetmap/osm2pgsql/issues/230 , but 
didn't get anywhere.  If part of 
https://github.com/openstreetmap/osm2pgsql/issues/901 was to improve the 
documentation in the code about how what's in the code actually worked 
(even if it didn't add much extra functionality) it'd be a great step 
forward.

Best Regards,

Andy