[OSM-talk] Osmarender4 slippy map (preview)

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

> I appreciate you may not want to add them immediately, but I thought we had
> a process for voting on these things.

There are two completely different decisions involved here. What (and 
how) we map, and what gets rendered (and how) on the tiles at home slippy map.

We have a halfway formalized process on deciding what we map, but no 
process whatsoever to decide what gets onto the slippy map at various 
zoom levels.

I believe the previous version was created by 80n and widely accepted, 
though never voted upon. Some things he left out because he thought 
they'd clutter the map, others he left out because they weren't 
supported by Osmarender3.

I am relatively new to OSM and did not want to take too much in my own 
hands, so I stuck to the old design (and the decisions what to render 
and what not, and what color and so on) because I thought that *not* 
changing something would at least not make it worse ;-)

I have nothing against rendering schools, universities, windmills etc., 
of course not everything can be put on level 12 but I guess from level 
13 or 14 on that shouldn't be a problem. I just didn't want to be the 
one to make the decision.

> Bridges and mini roundabouts (but not traffic signals) seem to have been
> added "through the back door". 

They are new features of Osmarender4 and I thought that in soliciting 
the go-ahead for Osmarender4 from the list, that would be included.

> I think these are an excellent innovations,
> but haven't gone through an approval meeting AFAIK.

As I said, there is no established process to decide what will be 
rendered on what zoom level in the slippy map.

 From 80n's last mail to this list I gather that he is about to re-work 
the slippy map styles anyway (he has already made a number of changes to 
the level 12 style since I installed it). 80n is in a much better 
position than I was regarding these styles because he did the "original" 
slippy map styles, so he will know wheter he deliberately excluded 
certain things from certain zoomlevels because it looked strange, or if 
something simply didn't exist when he designed them.

I suggest that 80n should include your changes in his general make-over. 
If that doesn't work, then anyone with CVS access can still sneak your 
changes in ;-)

Bye
Frederik

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