David<br>Attached is my working copy of osm-map-features.xml.<br><br>It has some additional things in it that may be useful (allotments) but also has some rubbish and experimental stuff, so don't consider it to be a production quality file. You are welcome to pick through it.
<br><br>A systematic coverage of all map features would be very useful. Getting the natural order correct is quite a delicate task (should residential areas go under or over car parks, should rivers go over or under industrial areas, etc).
<br><br>Bear in mind that Andy has been promising to create an all new version of map features "some time soon". But a lot of the styles will still be applicable so what you propose to do wouldn't be a wasted effort.
<br><br>Etienne<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/20/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">David Earl</b> <<a href="mailto:david@frankieandshadow.com">david@frankieandshadow.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Having realised the advantages of landuse and other area properties now I<br>know how to use them, I've been doing more with them.<br><br>However, I've realised the osmarender styles aren't complete (e.g.<br>landuse=allotments, military=range don't render among many others, and names
<br>don't get rendered for parks etc, even if I use a tagged node inside the<br>area). I know I can add these (and have). But it seems a waste of effort for<br>me to do this just for me. If I was to go through the list and add them
<br>systematically (colours for missing area types, icons for missing node<br>types), would this be helpful and can I get it into the osmarender release?<br>I can prepare a document proposing what colours and icons to use first if
<br>you like.<br><br>Secondly, I think it would be better if the mappaint plugin defalts had<br>colours consistent with osmarender (e.g. cycleways are rendered in magenta<br>in mappaint and green in osmarender, while footways are green vs brown).
<br>Again I know (and have) changed these, but I would have thought most people<br>would want this. mappaint also has a different set of missing area<br>renderings (mostly more of them). Again, would it be helpful for me to
<br>systematically bring these into line? (Note for the future: wouldn't it be<br>even better if they used the same style file?)<br><br>Personally, I've also found it much more helpful to set mappaint render the<br>ways wider than the default (river is especially narrow by default, but all
<br>roads), because it is easier to then see the difference between segments and<br>ways, and see what's missing, especially for dark colours (I'm workng on a<br>white background, which I find much more comfortable). What do other people
<br>think about this?<br><br>Finally, mappaint apparently renders objects in order, so that coloured<br>areas (e.g. a park) obscure linear ways (e.g. a cycleway through the park)<br>that happen to be rendered first. osmarender does things in a better order
<br>so ways overlay areas. Could whoever needs to know, consider this for some<br>attention in the mappaint plugin (or would it be in the main JOSM?)<br><br>David<br><br>PS I've put an example JOSM screenshot at<br><a href="http://www.frankieandshadow.com/xref/jsom-example.jpg">
http://www.frankieandshadow.com/xref/jsom-example.jpg</a> which shows:<br>- allotments rendered in brown (added)<br>- park obscuring way (you can see the nodes)<br>- parking area not rendered (but node is)<br>- thick line for railway, thicker than default for residential, cycleway
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