[Talk-GB] Residential highway with area is not rendering

[ael]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 12:36:15AM +0100, Andy Townsend wrote:
> On 13/04/2021 18:12, ael via Talk-GB wrote:
> > 
> > I am still waiting for various tiles to be repainted, but it looks as
> > if most, if not all, fail to show the width, which is sad.
> > Including, I think, https://map.atownsend.org.uk/maps/map/map.html.
> 
> It'd be a bit tricky to do since the residential width levels at e.g. https://github.com/SomeoneElseOSM/openstreetmap-carto-AJT/blob/master/roads.mss#L753
> would need to depend both on the zoom level and the actual width (if more
> than, say, 3), and other work might be needed to make sure that "extra wide"
> residential roads don't appear more prominent on the map than they should.

I had speculated that it could be a bit tricky, especially where
renderers depend largely on the width of a rendering to distinguish
various sorts of ways. I do feel that the area tag is much nearer to
reality, but the routing problem seems to beat that here. A pity...

ael