[Talk-us] renderer adaptation

[Paul Fox]

lennard wrote:
 > Paul Fox wrote:
 > 
 > > how hard is it (either technically or "politically") to get the
 > > major renderers to adapt to needs like this?  as i understand it,
 > > the paved/unpaved topic has much the same issue.  (and i'd like
 > > to be able to tell my new-to-osm friends that they'll someday be
 > > able to actually see the results of adding unpaved tags.)
 > 
 > It's been asked before, but as it's a major cartographic decision, and 
 > the style of the mapnik layer is in the hands of one cartographer, it's 
 > possible this got snowed under by more pressing bugs in the rendering.
 > 
 > http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/1447

great -- glad to hear there's some progress!

 > 
 > I think that the suggested casing for unpaved is too distracting, but 
 > having a different casing is what I thought about before as well.

it's hard to say without seeing an actual map image using that
style, so i'll just say that i think the paved/unpaved
distinction should be visible at scales where the casing might
not be renderable, or discernible.  i can't tell whether that
proposal satisfies that need or not.  (i've just commented to this
effect on the trac ticket, as well.)

paul
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