[OSM-dev] Getting admin_level=* from relations to render properly

Lennard ldp at xs4all.nl
Wed Apr 28 09:49:23 BST 2010


On 28-4-2010 9:27, John Smith wrote:

> That makes no sense when rendering can derive it from relations to
> pick the most important (lowest admin_level value) without people
> needing to know which way is part of which relation.

You are on the same train of thought I was on a year or so ago.

> Ok, here's the way and here's the relation and here's the rendering,
> please explain why it's not rendering the relation how ways nearby
> render:

Looks fine. I can't look into the osm.org tile server db to see how it 
wound (or didn't) up in there. Could be any of a number of reasons.

> So you admit the logic can be problematic with the rendering, doesn't
> that mean we're tagging incorrectly for renderers?

Don't tag the member boundary ways, and you're right.

> Ok so you admit there is a problem with rendering, but instead of

There is no problem with rendering. The renderer just renders what is 
there, which includes tagged member ways.


-- 
Lennard




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