[OSM-newbies] cycle map rendering

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Morten Kjeldgaard<mok at bioxray.au.dk> wrote:
>
> On 06/09/2009, at 22.12, Paul Johnson wrote:
>>
>> You're right.  To that end, I hope the cyclemap stops rendering
>> motorways and footways that don't have the bicycle=yes tag.
>
> Great! So I can plan a trip along a quiet country road, only to find
> there's a noisy motorway right next to it when I get there!  ;-)
>
> Seriously, this is a very bad idea. A map should show everyhing known
> about the landscape. A bikemap should emphasize information of
> relevance to cyclists, but not leave out information.

As an aside: Perhaps the reason that people producing trail maps in
the past have left out things like motorways is that if they wanted to
include them they'd have to pay a pile of money to some agency that
surveys them. Which isn't very nice when motorways aren't even the
main thing the main thing they're trying to present. So they don't.