[Talk-GB] Adding some additional building around the Angel area of London?

[Richard Fairhurst]

Ed Loach wrote:
> Why do we have to try and get multiple logos rendered on Mapnik,  
> rather than anyone who wants to use different renderings in a  
> specific area rendering their own? They have access to the data  
> after all.

Indeed. We shouldn't even be thinking of adding the LU roundel to the  
core OSM rendering right now.

If we do that, we need to add a Glasgow Clockwork Orange-specific one,  
a Paris Metro one, a New York subway one, etc. etc. etc.

Then, people will ask - no, demand - to start rendering US roads in US  
highway colours with US highway shields; Australian ones with this  
insane system of about 900 shields that they have over there; and the  
whole "etc. etc. etc." thing all over again.

They would be justified in doing so - their need is more pressing to  
their userbase, to whom green/red/orange means nothing, than the need  
for the LU roundel is to ours. I don't know if any of you have looked  
at how our highway colour scheme works in France, for example (and I'm  
not criticising anyone else here, because I chose the colours in the  
first place), but it makes no bleeding sense at all.

Repeat all of this for a large chunk of features in the OSM dataset.

Localised rendering is a great project and we should start to  
experiment with it. But absolutely not on the core Mapnik rendering  
right now, unless you're prepared to volunteer for weeks of fun with  
Mapnik and osm2pgsql.

cheers
Richard