[OSM-talk] Render icons for parking areas

[Michael Collinson]

At 04:00 PM 12/18/2007, matthew-osm at newtoncomputing.co.uk wrote:
>On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 12:20:30PM +0000, Abigail Brady wrote:
> > On Dec 18, 2007 12:05 PM, Brent Easton <b.easton at exemail.com.au> wrote:
> >
> > >  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.
> > >
> >
> > It should certainly be possible to use a relationship to 
> associate your node
> > with your area, and then have the automatic icon-drawer only draw 
> an icon at
> > the centre of gravity if there isn't an applicable node associated with the
> > area via a relationship.
>
>Personally, my ideal is to:
>
>  - tag all parking areas with an area
>  - tag only public car parks with a node
>
>This means that you can easily see the places you can park
>your car because of the car park symbol, but the
>"private"[1] car parks for residents in housing estates,
>etc, are not marked out so prominently.

That sounds like an excellent visual solution.

Mike
Stockholm