IMPORTANT CHANGES for Themes (tag-mapping)

Hi,

This is an information for Theme-Composers.
There will be an important change in tag-mapping for the OpenAndroMaps.

Until today sac_scale was preprocessed to carry only 4 levels:
T1,T2,T3 and T4, while T4 included T5+T6 too.

Now sac_scale will be extended for all levels = T1 – T6 (August update), so seperate levels for T1,T2,T3,T4,T5,T6

This includes some minor changes:
DAV_SCALE “black” is transformed to SAC_SCALE=T5 (was T4 so far)
If a way includes any “via_ferrata” tag/value SAC_SCALE is set to “T6” (was T4 so far)

_and_
in a second step (October) raw_sac_scale will be no longer supported = removed from Tag-Mapping!

SO: sac_scale T4 will NO LONGER INCLUDE T5+T6 > T5 AND T6 are seperate values from August update on.
THIS MEANS: You have to extend existing rules for sac_scale=T4 to “sac_scale”=”T4|T5|T6”
AND existing rules for “raw_sac_scale” have to be extended to “sac_scale|raw_sac_scale”

Please prepare your themes.

This have to be made in a 2-step process:

Extend your rules so that sac_scale prozesses T5 and T6 too.
So if you have a rule :

    <rule e="way" k="sac_scale" v="T1">
          <line stroke="#FFAA00" stroke-width="0.65" stroke-dasharray="17,1" stroke-linecap="butt" />
    </rule>
    <rule e="way" k="sac_scale" v="T2">
           <line stroke="#3052FF" stroke-width="0.65" stroke-dasharray="17,1" stroke-linecap="butt" />
    </rule>
    <rule e="way" k="sac_scale" v="T3">
           <line stroke="#FF0000" stroke-width="0.65" stroke-dasharray="17,1" stroke-linecap="butt" />
     </rule>
     <rule e="way" k="sac_scale" v="T4">
           <line stroke="#000000" stroke-width="0.65" stroke-dasharray="17,1" stroke-linecap="butt" />
     </rule>

extend it to:

      <rule e="way" k="sac_scale" v="T1">
          <line stroke="#FFAA00" stroke-width="0.65" stroke-dasharray="17,1" stroke-linecap="butt" />
      </rule>
      <rule e="way" k="sac_scale" v="T2">
          <line stroke="#3052FF" stroke-width="0.65" stroke-dasharray="17,1" stroke-linecap="butt" />
      </rule>
      <rule e="way" k="sac_scale" v="T3">
          <line stroke="#FF0000" stroke-width="0.65" stroke-dasharray="17,1" stroke-linecap="butt" />
      </rule>
      <rule e="way" k="sac_scale" v="T4|T5|T6">
          <line stroke="#000000" stroke-width="0.65" stroke-dasharray="17,1" stroke-linecap="butt" />
      </rule>

from October on you can create additional, seperate rules for T5/T6

If you use a raw_sac_scale, extend the rules:

       <rule e="way" k="raw_sac_scale|sac_scale" v="RT1|T1">
          <some settings..../>
      </rule>
      <rule e="way" k="raw_sac_scale|sac_scale" v="RT2|T2">
          <some settings..../>
      </rule>
      <rule e="way" k="raw_sac_scale|sac_scale" v="RT3|T3">
          <some settings..../>
      </rule>
      <rule e="way" k="raw_sac_scale|sac_scale" v="RT4|T4">
          <some settings..../>
      </rule>
      <rule e="way" k="raw_sac_scale|sac_scale" v="RT5|T5">
          <some settings..../>
      </rule>
      <rule e="way" k="raw_sac_scale|sac_scale" v="RT6|T6">
          <some settings..../>
      </rule>

So everyone making themes for OpenAndroMaps have to ensure that everything renders fine when expanding the sac_scale and finally deleting raw_sac_scale. I know its annoying – however there is no other way to ensure that the maps render fine in future.

Additional TAGS that will be removed from tag-mapping by end of October:

• raw_sac_scale (as mentioned above)
• incline_dir
• class_bicycle_mtb, class_bicycle_road (maybe we find a solution to transform _mtb to existing tags)
• noexit

I’m terribly sorry about this, however recently I discovered that there is a limit of max. 15 Tags in the MapsforgeWriter per OSM_Object so I have to reduce the amount of tags – otherwise we end up in white tiles rendering the maps at is was the case with parts of upper Austria last weeks.

See discussion of this issue at MapsforgeDevGroup:
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/mapsforge-dev/kQKfCMGk2Ec

Best regards
Christian