[talk-au] Railtrails

[Evan Sebire]

On Thursday 06 Aug 2009 10:13:47 John Smith wrote:
> --- On Thu, 6/8/09, Evan Sebire <evan at sebire.org> wrote:
> > A complicated solution would be to have user options
> > similar to non-web
> > applications.  Tick-box to emphasise paths that have
> > bicycle = yes tag. The
> > current cycle map is good but tick-boxes for other
> > properties such as fuel,
> > bbq, motel etc.  The rendering is good but the user
> > preferences are limited.
>
> This would be best dealt with as a layer option, and this layer highlights
> stuff over the top of a base map layer, which is rendered in a general type
> of way.
>
> What we're currently doing is working out the kinks on the base layer, from
> there we can work on these specalised layers that are shown when the user
> ticks the box.
>
> It can be done, I can only assume cyclestreets.net does this for showing
> cycle routes, I doubt they would render individual tiles for each search
> query.

Maybe slightly off-topic but does the current rendering engine obey the width 
parameter?   I wanted to fix up a river that is in some parts 10m wide and 
others 100m.  Would setting the width be the correct way to make it render 
better?