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

[James Ewen]

How come no one has made the observation that "One should never tag
for the renderers"?

Tag it as it exists, and away you go.

James
VE6SRV

On 6/15/10, Andy Allan <gravitystorm at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
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