[Tagging] Reviving the path discussion - the increasing importance of trails in OSM

[Tomas Straupis]

2020-05-23, št, 04:51 Jarek Piórkowski rašė:
> See also: not rendering roads or hamlets in very sparsely populated
> areas because we have one map style which needs to accommodate central
> European densities.

  OSM-Carto is a very well done DATA VISUALISATION. It is not a
cartography. What you're asking cannot be done with only tagging as
you will have ways which look exactly the same but will have to be
removed in one place and will remain in the map in another place. What
you're asking is accomplished in CARTOGRAPHY by "road network
pruning". It checks density/class of roads and removes minor ones at
the places of high density. It is one of cartographic generalisation
functions. All important generalisation functions take additional
heavy pre-processing and that is probably a reason why OpenStreetMap
does not have any Cartography projects yet.

-- 
Tomas