[OSM-talk] Rendering of tracktype

[Rainer Dorsch]

Am Mittwoch, 11. Juni 2008 schrieb Andy Allan:
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Sven Geggus
>
> <lists at fuchsschwanzdomain.de> wrote:
> > Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> >> It's because the Mapnik layer aims to be a nice looking map and not one
> >> that "has it all".
> >
> > Despite of this it would IMO be still much mor appropriate to render
> > tracktype=grade1 in the same form as highway=service.
> >
> > If we don't want to have mapnik render different tracks differently we
> > should at least have them in the cyclemap!
>
> Meh. It's on my list of things to do, but to be honest I don't see it
> as very important. There's lots of things that the cycle map doesn't
> render at all, and for one I see distinguishing onroad/offroad cycle
> routes as more important than the difference between tracktypes; ditto

I am very happy to hear that this is on your list. I very rarely use cycle 
routes along roads, so I have a different opinion, but I am probably in a 
minority here. And at the end you do the work, so you decide :-)

Thanks for the nice cyclemap.

Rainer

> for distinguishing bicycle=yes/no on footpaths and so on.



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