John Smith wrote: > 2010/1/7 John Henderson <snow...@gmx.com>: >> I notice that multi-values can be used with some tags. For example, a >> road with two names (eg, local name and highway name) can have both >> names listed in the name tag separated by a semi-colon. > > Actually we are trying to reduce this from happening by moving the > highway information, not the highway=* tag to a relation to reduce the > clutter and make things more efficient to parse. > >> Can the same trick be used generally? > > Yes, but you are better to use a relation to group ways into routes, > rather than trying to cram everything into the same tags. > >> The Bicentennial National Trail is primarily a horse route. >> Secondarily, it is a hiking route (as well as a mountain bike route). > > If you try and load too much info into the same tags it probably won't > render, use a relation instead and it might, or you may need to nudge > someone to get it to render but using a relation is more likely to > render than trying to get complex tag parsing to occur. > >> Is "route=horse;hiking" valid syntax? > > Yes, but it's unlikely to render.
Thanks John. How might I use a relation to generate multiple route tags (given that route tags are already within a relation)? John H _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
