It's definitely wrong to adjust the layer just to make the rendered output look better.<br><br>The layer tag should represent the true relative position of roads.<br><br>Incidentally, if a ramp connects two roads at different levels then should it be layer=0 at one end and layer=1 at the other, with the split somewhere in the middle? I don't see how else you can correctly represent a ramp.<br>
<br>80n<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 18, 2008 3:21 PM, Dermot McNally <<a href="mailto:dermotm@gmail.com">dermotm@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On 18/02/2008, Tom Hughes <<a href="mailto:tom@compton.nu">tom@compton.nu</a>> wrote:<br><br>> If the slip roads are not really underneath the other roads then<br>> yes it is definitely wrong (IMHO). The layer tag is meant to describe<br>
> the physical ordering of the roads on the ground.<br>><br>> If something isn't rendering right the solution is to fix the<br>> rendering not to deliberately misdescribe the data to try and<br>> make the rendering look prettier.<br>
<br></div>This was very much my own view too. However, there's the basis for an<br>argument here. The deck of a bridge (layer=1) that spans a motorway is<br>probably on the same "level" as the roadways connected to it (layer=0,<br>
usually implicit).<br><br>The other mapper I was discussing this with is doing something that,<br>IMO, isn't as drastic as tagging slip roads at layer=-1. He likes to<br>tag the mainline of the motorway to layer=-1 for a buffer zone either<br>
side of a bridge that spans it. You _could_ argue that it's no worse<br>than the bridge deck and its connections to the non-bridge roadways.<br><br>But to me, this is all just unnecessary editing and rendering sugar<br>
doesn't belong in the data set. The ideal thing would be if the<br>rendering quirks could be ironed out so that people wouldn't feel<br>motivated to spend their time on workarounds. Does any rendering<br>wizard agree? (because I wouldn't know where to start...)<br>
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