Multiple types per source

[bhousel]

Right now we have the type property, which is one of "tms", "wms", "bing", "scanex".

It would be nice to have each source file include all of the supported types for that source, rather than duplicating sources.

e.g.

source_types: {
  tms: { /*stuff*/ },
  wms: { /*other stuff*/ }
}

[iandees]

That makes sense to me.

[simonpoole]

IMHO a good idea, but not backwards compatible and given that the format isn't versioned simply changing it would not be nice (as with OSM I assume that we don't really know who is consuming the data, if anybody).

[tyrasd]

related discussion: #24

[bhousel]

IMHO a good idea, but not backwards compatible and given that the format isn't versioned simply changing it would not be nice (as with OSM I assume that we don't really know who is consuming the data, if anybody).

after #168 versioning the project becomes automatic

[simonpoole]

Well except that my fork will continue to use the old scripts etc.

[iandees]

How does switching to Node make versioning automatic?

[bhousel]

How does switching to Node make versioning automatic?

We publish regular releases to npm and follow semver..

[iandees]

Gotcha. We can do that with Python, too, so I was checking if there was something else.

[simon04]

JOSM uses the notion of mirrors, see https://josm.openstreetmap.de/changeset/7990/josm for the change in the XSD file, and https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Maps/Italy#SouthTyrolTopomap for a layer specified as wms+tms.

[grischard]

We also duplicate a lot of polygons - it would be good if we could define one geojson feature, then multiple sources per feature, then multiple types per source.

[tyrasd]

We also duplicate a lot of polygons

An alternative solution to that sub-problem would be to distribute the data (also) in the topojson format, which implicitly gets rid of duplicate outline segments.

[Marc-marc-marc]

some layers also have mirror url for the same type (for ex a mirror done by a local chapter to use when upstream is down). it would also be usefull to have them in the same layer. this need to allow 2 url for with the same type.