[OSM-talk] Maplint - show notes?

[Jochen Topf]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 03:05:16PM +0200, Dirk-Lüder Kreie wrote:
> Frederik Ramm schrieb:
> > Hi,
> > 
> >> P.s. why isn't the maplint layer visible on the highest level of zoom?
> > 
> > That was my decision when writing the initial layer.conf config file  
> > for the layer-supporting tilesGen.pl. I thought that, in terms of  
> > maplint information, zoom levels 17 and 18 didn't really add  
> > information (you can see anything of relevance on level 16 already) -  
> > but adding a 17th level would still have about doubled data transfer  
> > and storage requirements. So I decided against.
> 
> Actually adding zoom 17 would about quadruple the maplint tiles. it's
> now 341 tiles per zoom 12-16 tileset vs 1365 tiles for a zoom 12-17 tileset.
> 
> I'd rather see labels like on nodes (extending off to the side) for most
> of the errors (if that's possible for segments)

Thats not possible with the current Osmarender.

> Also a layering like in osmarender, where the notes  get rendered first,
> then  warnings, and then the errors, so the errors are always visible
> "on top" of everything else.
> 
> I haven't looked into how maplint does it now, but it seems that
> sometimes a mere warning is painted over an error marker.

Fixed in the new SVN version. (This is just the normal maplint rule, its
not used for t at h, somebody else who knows t at h has to bring this into
sync.)

Jochen
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