[mkgmap-dev] Polygon and line from the same OSM way (Re: residental area and narrow_gauge railway)

Thu May 6 11:01:45 BST 2010

Maks,

On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 10:37:47PM +0300, Marko Mäkelä wrote:
>On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 10:32:48PM +0400, Maks Vasilev wrote:
>>> What are these needed for? I haven't tested it, but I got the
>>> impression that since the style branch was merged to trunk, mkgmap
>>> can translate the same line into both a polygon and a line. Or do you
>>> need "continue" for that?
>>
>>I found in OSM more object that have boundary=administrative &
>>admin_level<9 ( see
>>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dadministrative  ) and
>>landuse=residential tag. It's a village, hamlet, suburbs.
>
>That's what I thought, but why can't you generate both a boundary line
>and a landuse polygon for these areas? In the past it used to be that
>only one of the "polygons" and "lines" files would match, but I think
>someone mentioned that the restriction was lifted in the style branch.

Can you please check this too?

	Marko