[Talk-us] Can-Amera border, states and provinces.

[Minh Nguyen]

Ngày 8/15/09 12:48 PM, Sam Vekemans viết:
> Also,
> Perhaps explaining (on the wiki, as an example) why the boarder between
> Spain & Portugal shows up lighter than the border between Germany and
> Poland.  As that might give the reader a clue, and better understanding
> of the issue.
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=43.5&lon=9.2&zoom=4&layers=B000FTFTTTT
> <http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=43.5&lon=9.2&zoom=4&layers=B000FTFTTTT>
>
> Or maybe if there is another wiki page somewhere else that explains it.
> In that case, a link would suffice.

Someone on either the dev or U.S. list explained that borders with fewer 
twists and turns will show up lighter when zoomed out. That is, Mapnik 
doesn't perform any smoothing on country boundaries yet.

Also, changeset 17070 [1] sounds like an attempt to address this issue.

[1] http://trac.osm.org/changeset/17070

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