[OSM-talk] [Tilesathome] Promoting/demoting items

[D Tucny]

On 10/12/2007, Gregory <nomoregrapes at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> And also some people may want to find a place_of_worship but not realise
> they have to zoom in to the very furthest zoom.
>
> An example I often give of OSM being great is that it can be used by
> charities, such as a church, producing a leaflet, can give a map to the
> event for free.
> Another example is my church here in Durham. It's just bought and got
> planning permission for a warehouse on a trading estate just out of town.
> OS/Teleatlas won't have this for a while... OSM does! We don't meet there
> every Sunday yet but are increasingly using it and people are increasingly
> needing to find it. I can link to zoom17 but that won't show where in
> context the place is.
> Please we should have these shown at lower zoom.


The problem would be, that you might want churches shown at a lower zoom,
some other people might want other places of worship also shown at a lower
zoom, other people might want pubs shown at a lower zoom, others might want
restaurants shown at a lower zoom, very soon the map looks cluttered at
lower zooms... The ideal solution would probably be that POIs get pulled off
the main tile rendering and added as overlays such that people can choose
which POIs get shown... That said, that's not something that's going to come
in the very near future, so, perhaps an even better idea for your purposes
would be to render the area yourself with as much details as you want at
whatever scale you want, it's not that difficult to do, then you could have
it printed, have the image hosted somewhere etc. specifically for the people
who need that info... you would, as I'm sure you'd expect, need to show the
data is from OSM, but you'd have exactly what you need for your purposes...



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