[OSM-talk] mark a way as secondary

[Andy Robinson]

I give up. Clearly I'm going around in circles ;-)

You are right that we could have two separate ways with the different data
for each mode of transport. That's logical for data storage. It just wasn't
so logical at the time I set out the original map features draft.

At the end of the day there is no restriction, at least currently, on what a
key or value covers, thus we can all come up with lots of glorious ways of
tagging the data. The current set of keys and values suggested on the map
features page is working well, as far as I can tell, for rendering the data
using SVG, that was the type of use I was envisaging the keys and values
for. Alternative uses and methods of rendering are clearly going to have a
preference for a different format or alternative keys and values. There is
nothing stopping that.

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 Immanuel Scholz
>Sent: 10 June 2006 18:47
>To: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: RE: [OSM-talk] mark a way as secondary
>
>Hi,
>
>
>>>Why not just "tram=yes"? Or even simplier, just adding another way for
>>>the tram line with "class=tramway"? This would be much more
>understandable
>>>to me (hm... maybe not as easy with the online applet..?)
>>
>> But you cannot have "class=tramway" AND "class=highway" at the same time.
>> That was the reason for the more descriptive & separate keys.
>
>Is this some kind of joke?
>
>I mean.. initially you said "you cannot have both, tramway and highway, at
>the same time as class=xxx."
>
>Then I presented two different solutions: Either using tram=yes (and
>highway=yes) or using two different ways (which each can have its own
>class=xxx).
>
>And now you say that "you cannot have both, tramway and highway at the
>same time" again...  ???!?
>
>;-)
>
>
>Ciao, Imi
>
>
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