[OSM-newbies] Opinions on my Work

[Russ Phillips]

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 5:57 AM, James Ewen <ve6srv at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Cartinus <cartinus at xs4all.nl> wrote:
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>> The layer tag is not for painting in the renderer. The layer tag is to tell us
>> things are physically above/below each other.
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> 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...

Please don't tag things so they look right in a given renderer - tag
them to match how they are. If mapnik, or osmarender, or any other
renderer, doesn't render them correctly, that's a bug in the renderer,
and should be fixed.

Bear in mind that OSM isn't just about the map you see at
www.openstreetmap.org - it's about the data that makes up that map.
The underlying data needs to be correct, because many other
applications will depend on it.

> I create an area that encompasses all of a residential neighborhood,
> and let the roads get rendered over top of the area. I also define
> parks, lakes, buildings, pitches, playgrounds, etc and let them all
> fall on top of the residential area.

Those features are all within the residential area, so there's no need
to split the area up. The renderer should (and in the case of mapnik
and osmarender, do) draw the roads, buildings, etc on top of the
residential area without any layer tags being added.

Russ