[OSM-talk] Mapnik style in slippy map
Steve Chilton
S.L.Chilton at mdx.ac.uk
Fri Aug 3 12:26:30 BST 2007
There are so many features not yet displayed in mapnik that it seemed logical to work through in "popularity" order.
Partly because there is still a lot of confusion about when features are agreed or not, and if so what they should be exactly.
Frequency of use shows some kind of acceptance, although I hear what you are saying about some being inherantly low-scorers because of what they are. Without wishing to cause an avalanche I will look at windmill some time shortly (see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Windmill). The good thing is that there is a PNG image there which can be used.
Cheers
STEVE
-----Original Message-----
From: David Earl [mailto:david at frankieandshadow.com]
Sent: Fri 8/3/2007 9:43 AM
To: Frederik Ramm
Cc: Steve Chilton; talk at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik style in slippy map
On 02/08/2007 15:08, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> What would be even more useful would be a count of paired
>> occurences (k=v).
>
> Here's a list with the top-30 tags (computed separeately for nodes
> and ways), and for each you have the top-10 values:
...
I'm sure this is a useful approach that will bear fruit. However, I
think there are tags that will not be frequently used because there
simply aren't that many of the objects on the ground. I have in mind
man_made=windmill, of which I have 5 or 6 in my area, compared to
thousands of roads, and scores of schools.
Personally, I think *everything* with a name should at least have the
name rendered, with a generic area shading or a generic node bullet if
it isn't one of the specially rendered things. But given that
disagreement is a way of life on this list, I'm sure there will be a
camp that disagrees with that notion.
David
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