[OSM-talk] Osmarender 5

[David Earl]

On 31/08/2007 21:04, 80n wrote:
> I've just submitted a new version of Osmarender.
> 
> This version contains many improvements to the rendering engine and lots 
> of improvements to the tiles at home rules files.
> 
> There's a presentation of some of the major changes (showing before and 
> after screen shots) here: 
> http://www.slideshare.net/nickb/osmarender5-sotm-lightning-talk
> 
> If you are running the tiles at home client then you can get the new 
> version by refreshing from svn.
> 
> There's bound to be lots of bugs, please let me know if anything breaks 
> or if you any of the rendering results don't look right.
> 
> Enjoy.
> Etienne


I picked upon a couple of negative things earlier, but I'd also like to 
say I think there are many improvements too. Much cleaner rendering of 
street names and refs and place names,and rivers are named now.

Didn't you previously say names of areas would be rendered? Maybe the 
ones I'm looking at don't have names. Is Cutts Close an example? I don't 
see names on the reservoirs.

I think schools should be promoted one zoom level - in terms of 
dominance and land use they are more significant than railway stations, 
though perhaps less of a landmark; stations are rendered at quite low 
zoom. In geographical terms churches too are navigational landmarks more 
than amenities,so they could move up even two zooms (perhaps with the 
name at 15 and just the symbol at 14 (like you're doing stations).

I think the county name is a bit dominant (perhaps a shade of grey 
rather than black?), and I think village names could move up one zoom 
level (to 12).

David