[OSM-talk] sample osm of spaghetti junctions

Robert (Jamie) Munro rjmunro at arjam.net
Tue Jul 17 12:54:06 BST 2007


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Abigail Brady wrote:
> On 7/17/07, *Alex L. Mauer* <hawke at hawkesnest.net
> <mailto:hawke at hawkesnest.net>> wrote:
> 
>     It's pretty and unclear in OSM....but not much better in real life. :-D
> 
> 
> Andy - we were talking about this on Saturday do I remember you saying
> you know which bits go over and under other bits?
> Adding layer tags as needed should improve rendering of the interchange
> a lot, we'll see what tweaks need to be done after then.

It would be interesting to see if adding drop shadows on the bridge
layers is a useful or a terrible effect. Maybe roads could even cast
shadows on each other.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Shadows

The lack of resolution for cartography on screen is often seen as a
problem, but it occured to me that cartography for screen could be
enhanced with things like drop shadows and subtle variations of colour,
where on paper these things would not look good. Also on screen you can
use animation. Moving dots could indicate one-way, for example.

Perhaps there is space for a talk at the cartography conference on that
subject.

Robert (Jamie) Munro
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