[OSM-talk] Parking symbols: YUCK!

[Knut Arne Bjørndal]

David Earl <david at frankieandshadow.com> writes:

> I see that someone has gone ahead and put automatic parking symbols at 
> the middle of amenity=parking areas in osmarender. This means nearly all 
> parking is getting two symbols now and it looks AWFUL. (The good news, 
> though is that the symbol is nearly always close to where I chose to put 
> a node manually).
>
> Unfortunately removing the related node isn't going to work, because 
> Mapnik won't then render parking symbols. And it is a lot of work to do 
> that.

Part of the reason I added areaSymbol to parking areas is that mapnik _does_ render icons on parking areas. After reading some of this thread I see it has a collision detection system which is the reason you haven't seen duplicate icons there (as long as you placed the node close enough to where mapnik placed the automatic one).

> And by the way, even if Mapnik does eventually do this, don't be tempted 
> to remove P nodes automatically, as some of them have names. The names 
> would need to be transferred to the area, with all the issues of 
> conflicts that might throw up.

If I were working on an area and saw a parking node inside a parking area I'd definitely remove the node, moving tags as needed.

If anybody decides to automatically clean up all the data they'll of course have to handle those cases.

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Knut Arne Bjørndal
aka Bob Kåre
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