[talk-au] cities changed to towns

Nick Hocking nick.hocking at gmail.com
Wed Dec 19 04:16:48 GMT 2012


Richard wrote

    "Take a shot at creating rendering rules that fit your use case!  :-)"

I'm with John on this one - especially for the case of Australia.  Maybe we
need a special renderer for Australia.  Just recently I managed to get some
new mappers interested in mapping in rural NSW.

They have started on the Wyndham area (which was just about completely
unmapped, and they are having the same problem as John. I,E when they want
to see Wyndham and it's neighbouurs (Candelo and Cathcart) at the same time
on a map, OpenStreetMap shows almost nothing since they are too far apart.

We really need a smart renderer that determines (for each tile in each zoom
level) what are the most significant objects/ways in that tile/zoom and
makes sure that they are rendered (even if they happen to be hundred mile
long dirt tracks). Also if the major places in the tile are only
localities,hamlets or villages then they should be rendered. That way we
would not be tempted to elevate a village to a town just to make the map
usable.


Nick
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