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<DIV><FONT size=2>Agreed. I think the current system works
perfectly. The area shows the limits of the parking lot, and we can place
the mode exactly where we want it and not have to fiddle around and make sure
the renderer gets the icon in an appropriate spot. Plus, we've all been
doing it this way so it'll be extra work to make sure you don't get two icons
for every parking area.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>-Jeremy</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=b.easton@exemail.com.au href="mailto:b.easton@exemail.com.au">Brent
Easton</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=bob+osm@cakebox.net
href="mailto:bob+osm@cakebox.net">Knut Arne Bjørndal</A> ; <A
title=talk@openstreetmap.org href="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org">OSM Talk
List</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, December 18, 2007 7:05
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [OSM-talk] Render icons for
parking areas</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>*********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********<BR><BR>On 18/12/2007 at 12:49
PM Knut Arne Bjørndal wrote:<BR><BR>>Hi<BR>><BR>>Yesterday I added a
feature to osmarender to render icons for areas,<BR>>and have added icons
for sport="soccer|tennis|swimming".<BR>><BR>>There was some debate on
IRC if areas with amenity=parking should get<BR>>a parking icon, like
mapnik does it. The drawback of this is that many<BR>>parking lots are
tagged with both an area and a node, often in the<BR>>center, which leads
to two icons per lot.<BR>><BR>>I imagine this could actually be helped
by doing icon rendering on the<BR>>areas, as there would no longer be any
need for this double-tagging.<BR>><BR>>I will be happy to implement this
(quite simple) addition to the<BR>>stylesheets if people want this to be
rendered.<BR></DIV>
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<DIV>No, Please don't. </DIV>
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<DIV>Rendering names/icons for areas just does not work properly for unusual
shaped areas. If the Centre of gravity of the area is not within the area,
then the name/icon ends up in the wrong place. The current system where you
tag the area to get the yellow shading and tag a node to get the icon exactly
where you want works perfectly. Many Parking areas are unusually shaped.
Please don't fix something that is currently working perfectly.</DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks for discussing this change on this list. Many of us are not privvy
to the IRC chats.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Regards,</DIV>
<DIV>Brent.</DIV></DIV><BR>
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<BR>Analyst/Programmer
<BR>University of Western
Sydney
<BR>Email: </FONT><A href="mailto:b.easton@uws.edu.au"><FONT
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