[OSM-talk] Advanced highway tagging

Andy Allan gravitystorm at gmail.com
Wed Nov 21 14:13:16 GMT 2007


On Nov 20, 2007 11:24 PM, Andrew MacKinnon <andrewpmk at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Do you have any examples of other maps where road drawing is not based
> > solely on objective features? I'd be interested to see how they work.
> > Or are you breaking new (cartographical) ground with trying to combine
> > autocartography with subjectivity? I can imagine specific cartography
> > (a map of a limited set of roads, drawn individually by someone)
> > incorporating specific subjective features, but I'd be interested in
> > altases or similar doing so).
>
> All commercial online maps decide which roads are major and which are
> minor on a subjective basis.

Do you have any *specific* examples? For example where two motorways
in Google Maps are rendered in different colours?

Thanks,
Andy




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