[OSM-newbies] Openstreetmap rendering broken by ridiculouserror messages

[ael]

Bettersoftware wrote:
> I've noticed this as well using IE 6 over Oxfordshire

Ah. Exactly Oxfordshire, uk. I am looking at parts of Witney, but
checked adjacent area including Oxford itself and saw the same sorts of
problem.

> It looks like Mapnik is rendering first and Osmarender over the top
> resulting in rubbish.

I checked all my contributions by rendering them with osmarender on my
machine before uploading. No problems seen or reported. I assumed that
the objections/diagnostics were coming from Mapnik.

A Lawrence


> ----- Original Message ----- From: Dan Karran To:
> law_ence.dev at ntlworld.com ; newbies at openstreetmap.org Sent: Monday,
> December 31, 2007 3:18 PM Subject: Re: [OSM-newbies] Openstreetmap
> rendering broken by ridiculouserror messages
> 
> 
> Which area are you seeing this in? You may find that somebody near
> you has been entering that information into the name tag when they
> don't have all the details.
> 
> 
> Dan
> 
> 
> On Dec 31, 2007 2:42 PM, ael < law_ence.dev at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> 
> Has someone accidentally switched on some diagnostics for the
> rendering of the main openstreetmap tiles?
> 
> The area to which I have been contributing has been rendered (in
> several senses) almost unreadable by enormous icons with messages
> like "not-in-map feature", "residential road without name" and much
> more.
> 
> While such things might perhaps be presented to a contributor they 
> certainly should not be presented in the world view which makes the 
> whole project look ridiculous.
> 
> And objecting *strongly* to roads (or other features) without names 
> seems ludicrous to me. If we don't know a name, are we supposed to 
> pretend that a mapped road doesn't exist?
> 
> But presumably this is just a mistake that will be fixed ASAP...
> 
> A Lawrence
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