[OSM-talk] Mapnik handling of highways that are also landuse...

[Dave Stubbs]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Martijn van Oosterhout
<kleptog at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Dave Stubbs <osm.list at randomjunk.co.uk> wrote:
>> Well, technically, there are ways of handling this case (the way would
>> need duplicating on import, with some clever tag stripping). But they
>> aren't pretty, or I think, desirable.
>
> FWIW, I've been planning to implement just that at some point, just
> havn't gotten around to it yet. The biggest problem is that the style
> file needs to contain information like "tag X applies only to
> nodes/ways/areas" and this information simply does not exist.
> Collecting this information is a project in itself.
>

I think this might be one of those Jurassic Park moments....