[OSM-talk] colour fills in osmarender

[Andy Robinson]

I have to admit that's more along the lines of how I envisaged the data in
OSM to work. The addition of ways (and areas) provides a method of
annotating the underlying base geometry.

Cheers,

Andy

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tommy Persson [mailto:tpe at ida.liu.se]
>Sent: 09 June 2006 16:27
>To: Andy Robinson
>Cc: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] colour fills in osmarender
>
>"Andy Robinson" <Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk> writes:
>
>> So, IMHO, OSM should record the physical and where this means that the
>> representation of the physical in OSM does not fit with the ideals of the
>> path models then something needs to be added to the nodes and segments
>that
>> permits the data to be used for path modelling. That could mean
>additional
>> ways used for this purpose or additional tagging to segments and nodes
>for
>> path analysis use.
>
>In a project at work I designed two levels.  One was the physical and
>it consisted of polygons and a polygon could be connected to another
>and that meant that it was physically traversable by a car.  In OSM
>that would be segments that just are connected to other segments.
>Then I had a more abstract data layer which encoded how cars were
>allowed to drive and things like speed.
>
>--
>/Tommy Persson