[OSM-talk] Fwd: Rendering wish value "suburb"

[Artem Pavlenko]

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> From: Michael Galonska <mgalons at gmx.de>
> Date: 31 January 2008 19:27:14 GMT
> To: Artem Pavlenko <artem.mapnik at googlemail.com>
> Subject: Rendering wish value "suburb"
>
> Hello Artem,
>
> Would it be possible to show the key=place value="suburbs" on  
> Mapnik with the same rules as
> k=place, v=village? In Germany, some suburbs belong to a city or town,
> but look from the outside like another village, e.g. they are  
> situated outside of the city body at
> 1 km distance. On the map the name of the neighboring village is  
> shown, while the suburbs name
> does not appear. The difference is mainly administrative only.
> It appears Mapnik does not render the value suburb. I do not know  
> who administrates the OSM-Mapnik.
> If you do not administrate the OSM-Mapnik-Tiles, perhaps you could  
> forward it to the person who does (steve8?).
>
> An example are Dutenhofen, Allendorf and Münchholzhausen  
> immediately southeast of Gießen, Germany, which are suburbs. Their
> names do not appear in Mapnik. On the other hand places like  
> Heuchelheim (west of Gießen) are tagged as villages, and they do  
> appear.
> The value suburb is also rendered on the corresponding Osmarender map.
>
> The example link:
> http://www.informationfreeway.org/? 
> lat=50.562568187435595&lon=8.600855394950692&zoom=13&layers=0000F0B0F
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Michael Galonska
> Longbow4u on
> OSM

Sounds reasonable to me. Can we render place=suburbs ?

Artem

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