[OSM-newbies] Opinions on my Work

[Karl]

Andre Engels wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 6:57 AM, James Ewen <ve6srv at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Cartinus <cartinus at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>>
>>
>>     
>>> The layer tag is not for painting in the renderer. The layer tag is to tell us
>>> things are physically above/below each other.
>>>       
>> Hmm, where I live, the buildings are on top of the ground, and so is
>> the parking lot. Okay, I'm making some suppositions, as I have not
>> lifted the building or parking lot to see if there actually is ground
>> under them. Maybe it's like trying to determine if the light stays on
>> in the fridge.
>>
>> Seriously, you have got to be joking. There is no way in the world
>> that I am going to make millions of areas to describe each little bit
>> of a residential area that sits between each road, building, etc...
>> every time you want to add another element to the map, you'll have to
>> go back and cut a hole in the existing area in order to place the new
>> element. I think cutting holes in area elements is more of a mistake
>> than layering.
>>     
>
> I think that cutting holes will not be necessary. Rules inside the
> renderer would be a much better way to do this - if area A is
> completely inside area B, then render the area as area A, or more
> general, if something is a part of two areas, render it as the
> smallest.
>
> Unfortunately it seems the actual renderers seem to have taken a
> different route, where in some cases the overlapping area gets a kind
> of mixed colour, and in other cases some type of area always takes
> precedence over another, even if it is a part of it, but I still think
> that a rule as specified above would be the best way to go.
>
>
>   
Well I've redone all the areas I draw last night to share nodes, I've 
also added some missing gates ;-).

I'll have to see how it render now, but the layer tag is the only way 
I've found to get a way within another way to render properly.

Thanks Karl