Hello Steve,
> My example of amenity was probably a bad one to include, since I was
> only looking at amenity=restaurant, and it may not be benificial with
> other values. I'm would be suprised that the highway one did not make
> an improvement. But in any case, I didn't see a difference in
> performance and I suspect that there are better places to look.
>
> For example there are 56 hardwired calls to getTag() in
> StyledConverter.
hmm, do you think about storing the information in e.g. a bitmask rather than in tags?
Gerd