[OSM-talk] colour fills in osmarender

[Andy Robinson]

I think Imi made the original schema page but all the early discussions on
tracks (as they were then I think) revolved around the basis that segments
can be an element in more than one way.

As for what is set in stone: only the elements that form the core of the db
tables as far as I am aware. That would include the ways of course but I
would guess not the rules for what a way contains.

Cheers,

Andy

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-
>bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Richard Fairhurst
>Sent: 09 June 2006 16:32
>To: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: RE: [OSM-talk] colour fills in osmarender
>
>Andy wrote:
>
>> Totally agree Richard, at its simplest, a way is currently defined as:
>>
>> "A way is a list of line segments that describe a street, or similar. The
>> way can be in any form, and segments can be members of lots of ways."
>>
>> It was always intended was it not that what we developed as a "way" was
>just
>> a collection of segments. Nothing more implied. So at the moment thus
>they
>> can be used for whatever you like and a route on the national cycle
>network
>> is just as valid as the segments making up a street or the route taken by
>> the number 69 bus.
>
>In that case, I think you and I have very different ideas about what a way
>is!
>
>I had always envisaged that a segment should be a member of only one
>way. If, in the real world, the road in question had multiple
>functions (e.g. A44, NCN route 5, Oxford Road, a footpath) then that
>would be done with one way with four key/value pairs, rather than four
>ways each with one key/value.
>
>On a bit of searching through the Wiki I now find the page you're
>quoting from. Is this gospel or is it still open for debate?
>
>cheers
>Richard
>
>
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