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

[John Smith]

On 28 April 2010 18:49, Lennard <ldp at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 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.

You don't need to, although it would be great if the OSM tile server
setup was better documented on how to put everything together, but
that's an issue for another thread. However the style sheet is
published to the SVN server:

http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/rendering/mapnik/osm.xml

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

As someone else pointed out, you will get multiple overlapping ways
being rendered which isn't the most ideal outcome.

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

The rendering software does 2 things, it takes a style sheet and
applies that to data it uses, just because the software does what it's
told doesn't mean it has been told to do the right thing.