[OSM-talk] Elevated highways

[80n]

The information here might help to explain this a bit:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Osmarender#Layers


On 1/28/07, David Earl <david at frankieandshadow.com> wrote:
>
> > AFAIK the seam is due to an inkscape rendering bug.  With svg
> > processors, such as Adobe, the seam is not normally visible.
>
> No, it's there in Internet Explorer as well. If two (nearly) collinear
> ways
> meet there's a visible line across the road at the meeting point, and if
> at
> an angle there's often a round-capped line end in one or other layer which
> protrudes through the opposite side of the overlaying/underlaying way.


Sorry I thought you were referring to the very thin seams that occur with
*all* layer joins.  The big seams can be avoided if you follow the advice on
the Osmarender page.


Looks to me like the ways in each layer are rendered independently so if
> roads meet in two different layers, they are rendered as if they both end
> there, unconnected.
>
> Davdi
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> talk mailing list
> talk at openstreetmap.org
> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/attachments/20070128/2f5299ab/attachment.html>