[talk-au] Rendering wish list

[John Smith]

--- On Tue, 11/8/09, Peter Ross <peter at emailross.com> wrote:

> I would like to be able to distinguish between paved paths
> and unpaved
> surfaces (mainly for paths, but roads would be useful as
> well).

The importance of knowing unpaved roads depends how far inland from the coast you go :) Probably exponentially so.

> I don't mind how it's represented but a suggestion is to
> use dots
> rather than dashes for those types of paths.  For the
> roads, I'm not
> sure what the best way to represent is.

Well street-directory.com.au which just shows scanned images of paper maps does redish orange dashed lines

http://www.street-directory.com.au/sd_new/mapsearch.cgi?star=5&heading=&x=149.26777035609842&y=-23.422484849758355&level=4&StateID=4

The importance of the road is indicated by the thickness of the lines. Although they don't accurately depict the Fitzroy Development road.