[OSM-newbies] Road below a building

[Lennard]

Randy wrote:

> Not being very fluent in German (well I had a semester in college, but 
> that was close to 50 years ago), I haven't monitored talk-de. Can you 
> summarize any consensus in this area from talk-de?

I was referring mostly to the arguments I read in this thread. Things 
like making the road a tunnel, trying to make the building a bridge. The 
icing on the cake was when the 'well, we need to split the building in 
3' argument came up; a facsimile of an argument on talk-de.

So I wasn't referring to 'shelter'.

I only glance at talk-de, and quickly get bored of trying to keep 
current with long and boring threads, which invariably means I don't 
have to read a lot of talk-de. If you know what I mean. :)

For reference, the current mapnik tickets about this issue:

http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/1445
http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/1564
http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/2394

Drawing a layer=1 building over a (layer=0) road is not the challenge 
here. Making sure you can still see the covered road in some way, is.

And just FYI: yes, it should be addressed in some way. There are other 
nagging layering issues in the mapnik map, as well.

-- 
Lennard
"Not a German, but am working on the mapnik style"