[josm-dev] Combining mappaint styles

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Ulf Lamping wrote:

> I was thinking about the representation, and the best idea I got aware
> of was to display the part of the way being a bridge (or tunnel) simply
> a little bit (1/2px?) wider than the normally used width.

Don't think that is visible enough.

> My first thought was to use something like a specially dashed (dotted,
> ...) way, but that would be hard to distinguish from other dashed stuff
> (like tracks) and also probably hard to "visually get" for very short
> bridges (tunnels).

What about alpha shaded lines? E.g. if you overlap a street with a 20% 
black line for tunnel or 20% green for bridge or something like that.

> Obviously, I haven't tried this out, so the best would be to have a
> prototype and have a look at it :-)

Well, the design of the XML and the implementation depends a lot on the 
fact how to display it later.

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