On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Richard Degelder <rtdegel...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have seen the wiki for relationships > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relations but have some questions about > it. I am hoping that someone can clarify them for me. > > If I want to have something like a bus route as a relation on a way but the > bus route does not follow the entire length of that way, there is a portion > of the way before and after the portion used by the bus, how would I go > about adding that relation? Is it required that I divide the way into the > segments into before the bus enters the way, the portion used for the bus > route, and the portion after the bus has left the way or is there another > means, without dividing the way into segments, that I can have the > relationship for only the pertinent portion of the way on which the bus is > traveling. Having to divide a way, especially for a small portion on which > a bus route runs or where there is a lot of routes converging/diverging over > a short portion of a way seems to be inefficient and potentially messy for > the map.
You need to divide the way up into multiple pieces, yes. (btw, avoid the word segments, as that is a term for a discontinued data type, so people might get confused). As for it being messy, it isn't because both mapnik and osmarender join ways back together before they render them. Cheers, Corey _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
