[OSM-talk] Osmarender - rendering of segments - possible compromisesolution

[Andy Robinson]

Etienne wrote:
>Sent: 25 September 2006 2:52 PM
>To: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: [OSM-talk] Osmarender - rendering of segments - possible
>compromisesolution
>
>Having reviewed the feedback from the release of Osmarender 3.0 it is clear
>that many people have been tagging segments that are parts of ways as a
>method of indicating that some part of the way is different.  For example a
>way might be tagged as a residential but one segment within the way might
>be tagged with abutters=retail.
>
>It seems to me that this is a valid use case.
>
>I want to propose a solution that allows this use case but still does not
>render raw segments that are NOT part of a way.  This will allow segments
>to be tagged as an override to a way but will continue to discourage
>tagging of segments on their own.
>
>Currently you can choose what elements to select as part of a rule:
>
><rule e="node|segment|way"  ...> will select all nodes, segments and ways.
>
>I'm proposing a new pseudo-element selector called waysegment, which will
>match segments that are part of a way, but not match bare segments that are
>not part of a way.  Such a  rule would look like this:

That sounds spot on. They are exactly as you describe them. ie "way
segments" and that's precisely the way I am using them.

>
><rule e="node|waysegment|way"  ...> will select all nodes, all segments
>that are part of a way and all ways.

I'll need to go into my data areas and clean up a few solitary segments but
I don't mind doing that.

So +1 from me.


>
>What do people think?
>
>Etienne
>


Cheers

Andy

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk