[OSM-dev] Renderer issue: highway=service and service=driveway?

[Pierre Béland]

Greg what you mention about paths is particularly true for various regions were there is almost no road.  I see that often in various countries. The link below shows the Manang valley, Nepal,  in the himalyas, where we dont see anything before zoom level 14.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=10/28.6550/84.0516&layers=H

For these areas, we can say that this is in a sense the main road.  

We have the same problem with tracks. For this map portion of Afghanistan, you see almost nothing at level 9. You have to wait al level 13 to see some tracks. Then, we can says that we have no perspective.  
http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=9/33.1594/65.5101&layers=H

In this particular case, if there was a hierarchy of roads, it would be less a problem if the rule that I proposed was followed. See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway_Tag_Africa


An automatic rendering rule will not take care of these particular contexts. Distance could be one rule, or absence of roads.

 
Pierre 



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 De : Greg Troxel <gdt at ir.bbn.com>
À : Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com> 
Cc : "dev at openstreetmap.org" <dev at openstreetmap.org> 
Envoyé le : Mardi 7 janvier 2014 19h17
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Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com> writes:

> service roads are there, it is only the driveways which are
> (deliberately I guess) rendered only in high zooms.

I think the real issue is that what should be rendered at highish zoom
is complicated.  For a footway that only goes 20m, having it disappear
fairly soon makes sense.  But a 3 km footway through a forest is far
more important.  Same for driveway, which is not really that inferior to
"service road", but is more important than "parking_aisle".

So to really do this right, I think some notion of characteristic
distance of the way needs to be calculated, and that used in the
suppression decision.


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