[OSM-dev] Mapnik style broken?
Jon Burgess
jburgess777 at googlemail.com
Mon May 14 22:15:56 BST 2007
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 21:37 +0100, David Earl wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dev-bounces at openstreetmap.org
> > [mailto:dev-bounces at openstreetmap.org]On Behalf Of David Earl
> > Sent: 14 May 2007 21:36
> > To: dev at openstreetmap.org
> > Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] Mapnik style broken?
> >
> >
> > > Is setting landuse to layer=-1 a generally acceptable solution?
> >
> > No. All linear ways should always be rendered on top of areas (within the
> > same layer): (a) there is never any occasion when one wouldn't want to do
> > this, and (b) there are thousands of existing areas which rely on
> > this. This
> > has been discussed before on the main list.
>
> OK, sorry, you were talking about area vs area.
The question is still valid but I think the better answer is to extend
what Mapnik already does to determine the z_order of roads.
The equations look something like:
z_order = 10 * layer
motorway: z_order += 9
trunk: z_order += 8
primary: z_order += 7
secondary z_order += 6
...
An explicit layer is the biggest contributor to the rendering order
(which it always will be), but certain highway types will get drawn on
top of less important highways. These z_order tweaks are important when
layer= is unset or the highways are in the same layer.
We can do something similar for areas:
z_order = 10 * layer
leisure: z_order += 2
natural: z_order += 1
landuse: z_order -= 1
...
Unfortunately the relative rendering priorities for areas is a lot less
easy to guess than those of highways and potentially involves multiple
key/values.
As I mentioed in another email, I think the layering model of mapnik is
currently slightly different to other renderers. I think Mapnik always
draw lines over the top of areas even if the area has a higher layer set
than the line. This is because it renders all polygons, then lines, then
points, then text / symbols (at least this is what I understand, perhaps
Artem can confirm or correct me).
I believe other renders will layer an area(layer=0) over the top of a
road(layer=-1).
Jon
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