[OSM-talk] More on osmarender

[Nick Burch]

Thanks to the help of various people, I've finally been able to generate 
some fairly nice looking maps of the areas I was interested in. A few of 
the roads weren't long enough for the road names, and a few things still 
rendered a bit odd even with the segments going the right way, but it's a 
nice start. The maps are now on the appropriate wikipedia pages, and 
hopefully will prove useful.


This process has led me to think that generating large area maps with 
osmarender is fairly easy, but doing nice detailed ones (with names etc) 
is quite a bit trickier. It would probably be really helpful if some of 
the osmarender experts could put together a page of advice on using it. 
(The greater london page looks a good start, but should probably cover 
more use cases). I'd offer to help, but I'm still a bit confused about why 
some things worked and some didn't :(


Also, I noticed that highway=minor isn't being rendered by the current 
osm-map-features.xml. Do people think that just adding "|minor" to all the 
unclassified tag entries is the right thing to do, or should we come up 
with some rendering between unclassified and secondary for these roads?

Cheers
Nick