[OSM-talk-be] Multi-layer problems

[Marc Gemis]

I would never "cut in the data". I would just file a bug report with the
renderer. OTOH I haven't looked at the raw data, and maybe with some slight
retagging (without tagging for the renderer), it can be solved. Perhaps a
 tunnel=building_passage on the highway=pedestrian

just my .5 cents

regards

m

On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 7:32 PM, Ruben Maes <ruben at janmaes.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone
>
> I surveyed near the new Virginie Loveling building near the train
> station in Ghent and mapped everything accordingly a few months ago.
>
> There are three levels of public road and the result on the map looks
> extremely ugly and unreadable:
>    https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/51.03685/3.70898
> 3D maps can't handle it either (e.g. F4:
>
> http://demo.f4map.com/#lat=51.0367277&lon=3.7088474&zoom=19&camera.theta=71.119&camera.phi=94.252
> )
>
> The fact that highway=pedestrian is now *always* rendered on top of
> buildings (no matter what the layer=* values are) makes things worse.
>
> If you haven't been there, I guess you have no idea how this place
> looks in real life from looking at the map. I can't think of any
> application that would be able to do something useful with it.
> Routing works a bit but if you cannot read the map or get useful
> spoken instructions that's not really helpful.
>
> This has left me wondering ... Should we either cut in the provided
> data or wait for renderers and applications to be able to handle these
> kind of situations? A possible improvement could be something like
> Google Maps does: it shows a layer chooser when you come near a
> multi-layer place, both indoor and outdoor IIRC. This seems
> complicated to implement in the current setup and I don't expect any
> OSM map at all to be handling these situations gracefully soon.
>
> There are also problems near the Bruges train station, though it looks
> a bit less ugly at first sight.
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/51.19707/3.21997
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Groeten
> Ruben
>
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