[OSM-talk] Mapnik churches

[David Earl]

I notice that churches have reduced to a black square on recent Mapnik 
renderings. While that might be a good compromise for unspecified 
religion, the block with a cross on top (or just a cross) for Christian 
churches is so widely used on maps, not to use it seems perverse. Any 
chance we could have it back again?

Also, I'm curious why the name of this church:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.33673&lon=-0.1583&zoom=17&layers=B00FTF
isn't rendered even at zoom 17. It doesn't appear to clash with any 
other label.

While I'm on rendering things in Mapnik...

- could man_made=water_tower be rendered? They shouldn't clutter the map 
as they tend to be set aside from other buildings, like windmills 
usually are.

- bus stops are rather dominant. A bit smaller? On the other hand 
amenity=bus_station isn't rendered at all, which seems an anomaly.

- there's an odd discrepancy between type sizes for similarly tagged 
nodes and areas. For example, I did a named industrial estate as 
landuse=industrial and inside that I put a number of named nodes also 
tagged landuse=industrial to represent individual factories, and shows 
up pretty nicely on Mapnik, except that the name of the industrial 
estate (area) is considerably smaller than the node names. If anything I 
think these should be the other way round, but probably making them the 
same size would be best.

- bridges on footways etc are great, but those where they are in line 
with casings could be a bit bolder IMO.

David