[mkgmap-dev] Add link-to-tags features that behaves like the link-pois-to-ways Command for the lines style-file

Sun May 9 22:51:11 BST 2010

I am coming to a point when maintaining my lines file, that adding a 
single key on top, means 200-300 lines more. This is becoming 
unmaintainable.  It would be great to have the option to have rules just 
like the ones we have for POI that one can run on certain keys.

e.g.
lanes=2 & oneway=yes { add mkgmap:road-speed = '-1'; add 
mkgmap:road-class = '-1'; }
This should then be matched to all lines that are generated after this 
command. As this is already possible for POI, I hope someone could 
without much effort implement this for rules based on tags too. This 
would be very useful as it saves many many lines of code. Currently if 
you would like to do something like this, it means that you have to add 
the rule to every line (with autorouting) in your lines file. This is 
okay for one or to tags (like some people do for maxspeed), but it 
becomes impossible to keep track once you have 10 tags you like to be 
enacted.

If there are several rules matching, they should simply add up. (or 
equalise themselves if +1 meets -1...)

It would be really great if someone could implement this feature. As it 
exists already for POI when using link-pois-to-ways I have the great 
hope that it is easy to implement and program and someone finds some 
spare time to do it. This could really help to avoid creating a ton of 
rules and open up many new possibilities to much better finetune 
road_class and road_speed.

  It would be a plus, if one could only "apply" this rule until a stop 
rule is given. Quick example
lanes=2 & oneway=yes { add mkgmap:road-speed = '+1'; add 
mkgmap:road-class = '+1'; set rule=1 }
highway=primary & maxspeed=100 {road_class=3 road_speed=4 0x02]
highway=primary ....
highway=secondary...
....
rule=1 {stop execution}