[OSM-newbies] amenity

Claudius Henrichs claudius.h at gmx.de
Tue Jul 22 15:17:40 BST 2008


Cartinus:
> On Tuesday 22 July 2008 14:18:56 Roland OSM wrote:
>> How can this be fixed?
> 
> This can't be fixed. If everything in the database would be displayed in a 
> single map, then you would not have a map, but an unreadable mess.
> 
> This is why on both the mapnik and the T at H layer of the map on the main site 
> only a part of all tagged features are displayed. The other features are (or 
> can be) used when specialist maps are made. Like cycle routes are only 
> displayed on cycle maps, welsh names are only displayed on the welsh map, 
> etc.
> 
Mind that in higher zoomer levels more details (=more points of 
interest) are shown.





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