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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>21 Dec 2019, 12:56 by ajt1047@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div class="">On 21/12/2019 11:40, Mateusz Konieczny
wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><br></div><div>21 Dec 2019, 12:00 by <a href="mailto:wolfgang@lyxys.ka.sub.org" class="" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wolfgang@lyxys.ka.sub.org</a>:<br></div><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;" class="tutanota_quote"><div>I suggest to keep the road classification consistent at
least within<br></div><div>a country and try to solve the problem of roads in low-zoom
maps at<br></div><div>the rendering level, by modifying the list of displayed
road classes<br></div><div>until a target density of displayed roads is reached. That
might<br></div><div>become easier to do when we move to vector tiles.<br></div></blockquote><div>Seems not doable with OSM data - this<br></div><div>would require far more road classes<br></div><div>than we use.<br></div><div><br></div><div>lane and surface data is also almost<br></div><div>certainly not helpful here even with full<br></div><div>coverage<br></div></blockquote><p>Renderers can certainly use tags other than "highway" when
deciding what road class to render things as<br></p></blockquote><div>I know, that is why I mentioned <br></div><div>lane and surface tags</div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><p>Specifically, if a tertiary is particular narrow it gets rendered
as unclassified, and if an unclassified or residential is a gravel
track it gets rendered as a track with public access.<br></p></blockquote><div>OSM Carto is using access tag in<br></div><div>this way. It works well for zoomed in<br></div><div>view but gets more problematic for<br></div><div>country level views or global ones.</div> </body>
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