[OSM-talk] Bridge rendering for freeway overpasses/interchanges in Mapnik and Osmarender

[Alex S.]

Beau Gunderson wrote:
> The 'wings' at the start and end of the bridge in Osmarender don't 
> really work when rendering complex freeway interchanges like this, they 
> tend to clutter things up to my eye.
> 
> The things that do look great in the Osmarender style are the additional 
> white line between the way and the edge and the lighter gray for the 
> edge color.
> 
> The options I can think of to reduce the clutter would be to either 
> remove the wings from Osmarender (which is probably not a good idea 
> because they do look nice when not used for freeway interchanges) or to 
> create a new tag or an additional option to the bridge tag 
> (bridge=overpass?). The Mapnik version may benefit from looking more 
> like the Osmarender style too.

+1