[OSM-talk] Render icons for parking areas

[Milenko]

Agreed.  I think the current system works perfectly.  The area shows the limits of the parking lot, and we can place the mode exactly where we want it and not have to fiddle around and make sure the renderer gets the icon in an appropriate spot.  Plus, we've all been doing it this way so it'll be extra work to make sure you don't get two icons for every parking area.

-Jeremy
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Brent Easton 
  To: Knut Arne Bjørndal ; OSM Talk List 
  Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 7:05 AM
  Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Render icons for parking areas



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  On 18/12/2007 at 12:49 PM Knut Arne Bjørndal wrote:

  >Hi
  >
  >Yesterday I added a feature to osmarender to render icons for areas,
  >and have added icons for sport="soccer|tennis|swimming".
  >
  >There was some debate on IRC if areas with amenity=parking should get
  >a parking icon, like mapnik does it. The drawback of this is that many
  >parking lots are tagged with both an area and a node, often in the
  >center, which leads to two icons per lot.
  >
  >I imagine this could actually be helped by doing icon rendering on the
  >areas, as there would no longer be any need for this double-tagging.
  >
  >I will be happy to implement this (quite simple) addition to the
  >stylesheets if people want this to be rendered.


  No, Please don't. 

  Rendering names/icons for areas just does not work properly for unusual shaped areas. If the Centre of gravity of the area is not within the area, then the name/icon ends up in the wrong place. The current system where you tag the area to get the yellow shading and tag a node to get the icon exactly where you want works perfectly. Many Parking areas are unusually shaped. Please don't fix something that is currently working perfectly.

  Thanks for discussing this change on this list. Many of us are not privvy to the IRC chats.

  Regards,
  Brent.

  ____________________________________________________________
  Brent Easton                       
  Analyst/Programmer                               
  University of Western Sydney                                   
  Email: b.easton at uws.edu.au



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