[OSM-newbies] building=yes on highway=pedestrian does not render?

[Andy Allan]

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:

> With your Eiffel Tower example, three different renderers are instructive.
>
> Cyclemap: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=48.85842&lon=2.29402&zoom=17&layers=00B0FTF
>
> Cyclemap appears not to render pedestrian areas. The
> highway=pedestrian, area=yes appears only as an outline.  It appears
> that Cyclemap draws highway=pedestrian after buildings, so the
> pedestrian ways are shown on top of the tower.

The opencyclemap handling of multipolygons is known to be broken, so
I'd advise caution on examining the output there. Similar problems
exist with pedestrian areas. I'm working on both these issues during
setup of the new server.

> It also appears that the Eiffel Tower was seen by the SRTM mission, as
> there are elevation contours around the tower.  Neat.

Most large buildings have a contour around them on SRTM :-) Now as to
whether you consider that a feature...

Cheers,
Andy