[Tilesathome] Proposal temporay tags -- the solution?

[Knut Arne Bjørndal]

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 12:22:19PM +0100, Marc Schütz wrote:
> > Why is nesting such a bad thing?
> >
> 
> I think nesting is only the sympton. The problem is that bridge/tunnel/etc. 
> should be treatible as independent of all the other tags a particular object 
> might have, because all bridges should basically look the same. The only thing 
> where they differ is the width of the object. But there is no way for a rule to 
> know which width it has, without looking at the highway, railway, or whatever 
> other tags that might be relevant.
> 
> So there are tons of CSS styles, each of which repeats the width information 
> (railway-rail-bridge-casing, railway-light-rail-bridge-casing, ...) whereas in 
> fact just one declaration should suffice, if it could somehow reference the 
> width of the underlying object. At the same time, it would make a lot of 
> nesting unnecessary.

Well, the current usage of CSS isn't very good, but hughbris has
started cleaning it up, that should help a lot.

-- 
Knut Arne Bjørndal
aka Bob Kåre
bob+osm at cakebox.net
bobkare at irc
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