[OSM-talk] displayed width of roads

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

> > By co-incidence, I was in contact with another mapper who's been doing
> > something like this to make low zoom osmarender rendering a bit
> > prettier. What's everybody's opinion of this kind of practice? Is it
> > not an example of compromising the data (which we want to endure) to
> > work around a temporary deficiency in one particular renderer?
> 
> If the slip roads are not really underneath the other roads then
> yes it is definitely wrong (IMHO). The layer tag is meant to describe
> the physical ordering of the roads on the ground.

I've had a similar situation on the talk-de list where some people
seem to have started adding layer=1 to tram tracks. I don't like this
all that much (a bridge leading over a road with tram tracks would
then need to be layer=2 etc) but it's hard to argue with them since
the tram tracks *are* on top of the road. The layer tag doesn't say by
how much...

Bye
Frederik

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