[Tagging] Tags useful for rendering of roads in poor conditions

Fernando Trebien fernando.trebien at gmail.com
Wed Jan 1 13:36:00 UTC 2014


Ah, happy new years everyone! :D


On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Fernando Trebien <
fernando.trebien at gmail.com> wrote:

> Great! I'll surely count on your expertise, Matthijs. I think the guys at
> the design list can help us arrive at a good visual style for this. We can
> start with our 2 cents (malenki's suggestions seem like a great starting
> point).
>
> I agree with Richard, here on the tagging list we should not be concerned
> with rendering specifics. However, for me it's been great in understanding
> which factors seem more important to most people across different cultures,
> in order to establish the major difference at the right spot. A rendering
> decision requires an insight in tag semantics, and in this case also
> involves a tagging culture change (promoting a specific tag) that may even
> spread all the way down to editors such as JOSM and iD.
>
> If nobody disagrees, I'll consider that the tracktype tag is the best
> choice for this decision, and that any value besides grade1 deserves some
> marking meaning it's not in what most people consider "good condition".
>
> I believe an effective way to get people to use tracktype that way is,
> beyond a wiki update, also an update on JOSM's presets (in this case,
> simply adding a tracktype field in several presets). Experient mappers
> (most of those using JOSM) will quickly get the message and then pass it
> along to new users.
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 11:01 PM, Matthijs Melissen <
> info at matthijsmelissen.nl> wrote:
>
>> On 31 December 2013 22:27, Fernando Trebien <fernando.trebien at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > I was thinking of a colour change (like the Humanitarian style does),
>> but a
>> > dashed outline would be just fine for me. After deciding which tags
>> should
>> > be used, I think I'd leave the aesthetic decision to people in the
>> "design"
>> > list or (perhaps better) to Carto's developers (I don't know who made
>> > Carto's style but I've heard a professional cartographer was hired for
>> > that).
>>
>> The Carto style is maintained by Andy Allan aka gravitystorm:
>> https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto. The Carto design
>> is basically a direct copy of the older Mapnik XML design, of which I
>> don't know who wrote it. Apart from Andy, many people, including me,
>> have contributed to the Carto style. I have worked on the rendering of
>> roads, so if you like, I can help you in writing up the change. Just
>> keep in mind I don't know anything about cartography or design either,
>> I'm just good at typing out other peoples' ideas in a machine-readable
>> form :).
>>
>> -- Matthijs
>>
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