[OSM-talk] administrative boundaries that run along roads - in the Mapnik layer

[Thomas Wood]

On Feb 11, 2008 12:19 AM, Adrian Frith <adrian at frith.co.za> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 10:46 +1300, Robin Paulson wrote:
> > > I'd rather vote to prefer highways.  Administrative boundaries are only
> > > useful for... the administration.
> >
> > maybe, maybe not. but if we represent them with a fine enough line,
> > they should not interfere with roads, which physically need a thick
> > line to represent them.
> >
> > imo, those boundaries shown on the map of cape town are far too thick,
> > i'm sure if they were less prominent there would be less of a problem
>
> I agree. In fact, they look *much* better at z15. See, for example,
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-33.95306&lon=18.47802&zoom=15&layers=0BFT
> I don't think people would object to boundaries drawn that thin? I mean,
> they don't obscure any other detail.
>
> Cheers,
> Adrian
>
>

Yes, z14 boundaries on osmarender do look bad, it's been nagging me
for a while, but I keep forgetting to look at the stylesheet, test and
submit a patch.

-- 
Regards,
Thomas Wood
(Edgemaster)