[OSM-talk] Render icons for parking areas

[Mario Salvini]

Jon Burgess schrieb:
> On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 13:41 +0100, Daniel Schmidt wrote:
>   
>>> access=public/private/permissive are all listed on Map_Features, it
>>> isn't clear whether permissive should imply a P symbol or not. The
>>> code needs to handle the other cases too.
>>>       
>> In my understanding, an example for a "permissive" car park would be a  
>> supermarket car park. It's a private car park which is publicly  
>> accessible and you don't have to ask anyone for permission to park.  
>> But you are only allowed to use this car park while shopping in that  
>> particular market. As the usage of this car park is somehow restricted  
>> I wouldn't display a 'P' symbol.
>>
>> The only case where I would place this symbol is when you are allowed  
>> to park your car and go whereever you want for a couple of hours.
>>
>>
>> So:
>> access=public => 'P'
>> access=private => no 'P'
>> access=permissive => no 'P'
>> access=[anything else] => no 'P'
>> no access => 'P' (as most of the current car parks in OSM are probably  
>> public ones but don't have an "access" tag)
>>
>>     
>
> I've made the appropriate updates to the Mapnik osm2pgsql import code so
> that it will only add the automatic 'P' symbol to a parking area if
> there is no access= tag or if there is access=public. Any other
> access=<something> tag will prevent a P being added. 
>
> It will take a week or two before the effect of this change will appear
> on the rendered maps.
>
> In addition I've added the access= key to the list of columns exported
> to the PostgreSQL database so we can add further map styles to
> differentiate other objects with access=<something> on the map.
>
>   
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Approved_features/Parking
Is it hard to change the mapnik-code to render also this approved 
parking-feature?
That would be great :-)

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mario