[OSM-talk] Buildings and roads

[Nathan Mixter]

Wow, Naga City is full of buildings. How did they get so many? Are those all building=yeses? Crazy. And I thought adding all the industrial and commercial buildings was bad. Anyway I still think that if the building layers were set at a lower layer level by default and the roads to a higher, it might look better.


On Wed, December 17, 2008 06:49, Nathan Mixter wrote:

> Just wondering. Shouldn't buildings be rendered
behind roads. 

> Currently buildings are drawn above a road when the
road is wide like 

> a highway or major road. Obviously buildings don't
cut into roads. If 

> the road layer is on top this won't happen.

 

A "major road" doesn't have to be wide by
default. I hereby invite you to visit Guadarrama, where a trunk road (the
"N-VI") has only two lanes, and buildings are just one meter away
from the asphalt.

 

Yes, I agree that the rendering is messed up at low zoom
levels (see Naga City in the Phillipines), but at higher zoom levels, I see no
other easy solution.

 

(In a perfect world, a road would be not a line, but a
polygon, so the width and area could be perfectly known).

 

 

Cheers,

--

Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivan at sanchezortega.es>

 

Un ordenador no es un televisor ni un microondas, es una
herramienta compleja.

 

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