[OSM-dev] Tiles with data, but without ways

[Jochen Topf]

On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 02:09:25PM +0000, Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote:
> Jochen Topf wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 09:31:38PM +0000, 80n wrote:
> >> On 1/22/07, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> 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.
> > 
> > I disagree. I think people would be *more* motivated to add tags if
> > they see that there is something there already, but they want their
> > street to show up properly with names and colors for primary roads etc.
> > Also I think it is harder to start your mapping in an area where there
> > is nothing, because you'll think it is futile anyway. But if you see a
> > start somewhere you might be induced to help adding to it.
> 
> Did this happen? I.e. does osmarender now render unwayed segments in
> dashed grey? When will they start showing on the osmarender layer of the
> slippy map?

The consensus seems to be that we want unwayed segments in dashed grey.
I will add this to Osmarender4 (I am not working on version 3 any more as
I consider it obsolete). But there are currently some problems with
Osmarender4 and the slippy map. Once we have figured this out we can
switch tiles at home to Osmarender4 and then it will be in it.

Jochen
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