On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 07:12:51PM +0000, Steve Ratcliffe wrote:
First in the particular case of location, address and perhaps access tags I think that they should be separate file(s). The very fact that the same rules are repeated in lines, points and polygons, strongly indicates that they should be separated. They could be placed in one file, which would be used by each of the different geometry types.
I agree, one file for these should be enough. I did not quite follow you regarding access tags. They do not matter for polygons, do they? For points, they can matter with link-pois-to-ways, which implements access restrictions based on nearby nodes that carry access tags.
Second, perhaps there is a need for two commands include-before and include-after which allow you to do the inclusion either way as appropriate for the situation.
Could we have something similar to the #include and #undef in the C preprocessor? For #undef (or whatever it will be called), an example would be a style that is derived from the default style but removes the lines rules for power=line and man_made=*. Last, given the current breakage in trunk (sorry, I failed to notice it), I guess that we should we have a separate branch for refactoring the default style and the substyle handling. Best regards, Marko