[OSM-talk] Render icons for parking areas

[Andy Robinson (blackadder)]

Jon Burgess wrote:
>Sent: 19 December 2007 10:53 PM
>To: Tom Chance
>Cc: OSM Talk List; Abigail Brady
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Render icons for parking areas
>
>
>On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 15:26 +0000, Tom Chance wrote:
>>
>> Agreed that this is an important distinction, and that your current
>> method works with t at h (I do the same). But we should really tag them
>> properly by adding something like "access=private/public" to:
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Mapping/Features/Parking
>>
>It would be relatively straightforward to adjust the Mapnik code so that
>the automatic 'P' would depend on the access= key. We'd need to decide
>on the policy though:
>
>- access=public => 'P'
>- access=private => No 'P'
>
>- access=permissive => ?
>- access=[anything else]  => ?
>- no access= key => ?
>

Please lets not have too many difficult abbreviations. Much better that the
data is clearly readable. Plain text ensures we don't ever need a dictionary
to understand our tags.


>The Mapnik code ensures the centre of the 'P' is always within the area
>even if it is an unusual shape.
>
>Ideally we could also suppress the P if there was a manually placed node
>within the area but that is a little more complex to implement.
>
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>	Jon
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Cheers

Andy