[Merkaartor] [OpenStreetMap] #1119: Ability to specify icon size in a style

[Chris Browet]

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>
> Thing is : roads have an implicit size already due to the existance of
> the width=... tag (and in the absence of that tag, the width is
> heuristically determined from the highway type)
>
> POI don't yet have that. That is why I think we need to have the stylers
> set the size explicitly. And yes, they should be carefull about those
> sizes. For example setting a size=100mx100m on supermarkets won't be the
> sensible thing to do, even if a supermarket in general has that size.
>
> In my opinion size should probably be interpreted as : the area where
> there is probably not a lot of interest around this POI.


I'm afraid there is not "one solution fits all" here. A bus stop in the
middle of a town shouldn't be rendered the same way as a bus stop in the
middle of nowhere...

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>
> What would the alternative be in your opinion, besides settings the size
> in meters for roads in the style (which in my opinion is a step
> backwards)


If I remember well, that's about (without the implicit size) what we are
doing. Basically:
PixelPerM*proportional + fixed makes the proportional part expressed in
meters.

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>
> > The problem with shorter release cycle is that  we should each time allow
> > some weeks of stabilization and bug fixing. 2 weeks stabilization per
> month
> > is hardly feasible.
>
> Well, the idea would be that a shorter release cycle would need less
> stabilization?


In the best of worlds, probably yes. But we have to take into account the
overhead of people being informed, upgrading to the latest version, having
the translators do their job and users having something to map as to be able
to test in real conditions.
I don't think that, even if we released at each new major feature, we could
reduce the freeze period to one day.

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> > I was thinking about a system of weekly "nighties" or something like
> that.
> > That would be "alpha" releases, without warranty of stability, but
> allowing
> > the non-developers (basically windows and mac) users to use/test the
> latest
> > features...
>
> Do we really have users that would do that? Aren't most 'bleeding
> edgers' more likely to use linux?


I don't know. I have seen Windows user lately on the list using only the
released versions (even the pre 0.11 in one case).
It would be very interesting to have some statistics but I have no idea on
how to collect them.

- Chris -
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