[OSM-dev] Tiles with data, but without ways (was: Filled oceans in tiles at home - request for development work)

Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany) openstreetmap at ostertag.name
Mon Jan 22 21:45:29 GMT 2007


On Monday 22 January 2007 22:31, 80n wrote:
> On 1/22/07, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 1/22/07, Dirk-Lüder Kreie <osm-list at deelkar.net> wrote:
> > > We could use the osmarender debug-mode for tiles at home, which would make
> > > segments show up on the map, but we need to make clear that this is not
> > > yet finished data, perhaps by only doing it on zoom 12-14, so the
> > > Segments show up in overview, but not when someone is browsing detail,
> > > on the other hadn this might be confusing if suddenly a whole lot of
> > > data seems to be missing just because one zoomed in.
> >
> > I think this would be better, but I think we should do away with the
> > label "debug". I'd like osmarender to render segments without ways as
> > something like a grey dashed line. That looks unfinished and it would
> > give a much better impression as to the state of the map.
> >
> > Is there any good reason why you would *not* want to display such
> > segments?
>
> The problem with rendering segments in Osmarender is that people are less
> inclined to make them into ways and tag them if they show up anyway.

Well, but on the other hand If I try to convince someone to start mapping in 
his area and he even doesn't see anything in his area(because it's 'only' 
segments) I normally get an answer like: 
	"Why should I start in the middle of nowhere ..."
	"There are not really many people out there doing things 
	 for this lonesome project, ..."
	..
So I think that at least seeing that there is already something done makes 
people think 
	".... Oh it's only correcting these 2 or three streets ..."
And everyone who already started mapping knows that once you really started, 
it's pretty addictive, which makes it hard to stop  ....

> If segments are rendered then IMHO they should be rendered in purple or
> some obnoxious shade of brown so that people are strongly motivated not to
> leave them like that.

I don't care about the color, but I thought a 1 pixel wide dashed light grey 
line would be good.


-
Joerg




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