[OSM-talk] osmarender and butted lines

[Paul Dixon]

My first attempts with osmarender produced something just a little "off" 
- here is an illustration

http://files.dixo.net/osmarender_butted.png

Here several ways are joined in a circle, but where the ways are joined 
at angles, it leaves a little triangular gap due to the butted ends of 
the lines. If I edit my osm-map-features.xml to use a rounded cap 
instead, it looks a lot better

http://files.dixo.net/osmarender_rounded.png

Here's the styles I changed:

  .highway-unclassified-casing {
        stroke-width: 1.5;
        stroke-linecap: round;
        stroke-linejoin: round;
        fill: none;
        stroke: #000000;
        }

      .highway-unclassified-core {
        stroke-width: 1;
        stroke-linecap: round;
        stroke-linejoin: round;
        stroke: #ffffff;
        fill: none;
        }

Is there a reason why osm-map-features.xml is not distributed this way 
that I should be aware of?