[Talk-us] Parking rendering

[Martijn van Exel]

I agree this should ideally be addressed at the data level. If all parking
nodes had some capacity / access information, the renderer could prioritize
for larger public parking when zooming out, for example. And entering every
strip of street parking spots as parking in OSM does not make sense to me.

As it is, it's probably better to have mappers being exposed to this
'over-parking' in some areas, so that we actually have this discussion.
Whether that exposure should be on the main map or on a separate data
dashboard is a non-issue until we actually have these data dashboards ;)

Martijn


On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 7:25 AM, Serge Wroclawski <emacsen at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Nathan Mills <nathan at nwacg.net> wrote:
> > (I switched to talk-us for this reply because it doesn't touch on import
> issues)
> >
> > I don't think it's so much a bug in the stylesheet as much as a bug in
> the world we're trying to map. Many cities simply have excessive amounts of
> parking and that shows up on the map.
>
> This is partially (though not entirely) a US "problem", and while we
> can argue the issues around parking in general, the map clutter is due
> to a combination of rendering issues and other problems.
>
> For example, in the Washington, DC area, there are many small, narrow
> parking areas which are in reality just street parking that has been
> improperly imported.
>
> I suspect that if we examine many areas where parking is so cluttered,
> we will find some combination of rendering issues and data issues.
>
> The data issues will need addressing, then the rendering problems are
> likely going to be fairly solvable.
>
> - Serge
>
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