[OSM-talk] barrier=gate, run a script?

Simon Ward simon at bleah.co.uk
Sun Oct 19 23:36:47 BST 2008


On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 10:49:32PM +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> sergio sevillano wrote:
> > the key:barrier has been approved and thus the highway=gate now belongs 
> > to barrier
> > *barrier=gate *
> > 
> > shall we run a script to do this?
> 
> No, because this would break existing rendering. First make sure the new 
> tag is supported by the majority of renderers - otherwise it will look 
> to people as if the gates had been removed because they're suddenly not 
> on the map any more.

barrier=gate (and some other barrier=*) is supported by Osmarender (and
has been for some time before the voting began on the barrier=*
proposal), but not currently by Mapnik.

Simon
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