[Tagging] Rendering change: buildings within highway areas

[Brad Neuhauser]

MapQuest Open seems to have a good compromise in this case--the tunnel is
rendered above the buildings, but is partly transparent (to allow the user
to see other features) and has more prominent dashed casing (to indicate it
is below-ground).


On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 10:56 AM, Matthijs Melissen <info at matthijsmelissen.nl
> wrote:

> On 9 July 2014 16:29, Pieren <pieren3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > We get increasing feedbacks on my local list that the new rendering
> > rule is counter-intuitive (to not say that it is considered as a bug).
> > Now roads are rendered on top of buildings even when roads are really
> > under buildings or underground (tunnels). Why not when your primary
> > interest is for roads, but it's not so nice when your interest is
> > buildings ;-)
> >
> > Examples:
> > http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/47.61190/-122.33067
> > http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/43.28450/5.38016
> >
> > This is now clearly a map style oriented for transport and the result
> > is more abstractive than previously where the z order reflected more
> > the real world. We can blame Google for many things but, at least,
> > they render tunnels below the buildings... If you don't like
> > buildings, than make it frankly and remove them completely from the
> > style.
>
> Thank you for your feedback. It seems none of the solutions is really
> ideal. I think the old rendering was not perfect either. Here you can
> compare them: http://bl.ocks.org/tyrasd/raw/6164696/#16.00/43.2856/5.3814
> Rendering order is still work in progress, so we might decide to move
> things around again later. Suggestions are welcome.
>
> -- Matthijs
>
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