[OSM-talk] displayed width of roads

[Jeremy Adams]

My "fix" for the situation you linked to was to set motorway_links to layer=-1.  This puts them underneath the main roads and makes the map look much nicer IMO.

See here for a similar example in my area:

http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=-36.97273&lon=174.81833&zoom=16&layers=B0FT

-Jeremy

Original Message -----------------------
i realise this isn't strictly an osm issue, concerning more the
renderers, but anyway...

why are roads displayed so thickly? I was looking at osm data overlaid
on oam, and realised that for a lot of roads, at some zoom scales, the
line is probably twice the width of the actual road. this causes
problems at even simple motorway junctions, as the whole thing becomes
a big blue mess. could i request this be looked into?

http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=-36.97273&lon=174.81833&zoom=16&layers=B0FT

is a good example, which is a very simple junction

i appreciate that some motorways are two lanes each direction, and
some 6; it would be nice to settle on some sort of default width (it
appears to be closer to 6 at the moment) which is commonly used

do any of the renderers pay attention to the number of lanes for each
road and render accordingly?

thanks

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