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

[David Groom]

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From: "Etienne" <80n80n at gmail.com>
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Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 2:51 PM
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:
>
> <rule e="node|waysegment|way"  ...> will select all nodes, all segments 
> that
> are part of a way and all ways.
>
> What do people think?

It gets my vote.
David

>
> Etienne
>


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