[OSM-talk] Render icons for parking areas

[Ben Companjen]

On 17/01/2008, Lukasz Stelmach <stlman at poczta.fm> wrote:

>
> There is no algorithm which
> can be applied to all car parks in the world and not producing at
> least a dozen of ridiculously placed icons. IMHO placing a node that
> will be drawn as an icon is twice as good as automagic script that
> counts the position above the area.
>
> 1. The icon will be always in the most reasonable place because
> human beings know better.
> 2. Nodes can be, someday, exported as POIs and it will be easier to
> find a node-parking rather than area-parking.
>
> These are my 2 cents.
>
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> Było mi bardzo miło.               Czwarta pospolita klęska, [...]
>  >Łukasz<                 Już nie katolicka lecz złodziejska.  (c)PP
>
>
And how does a human being find the best place for an icon? I would
say by using an algorithm...
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