[OSM-talk] Rendering power lines: black is beauty

Karl Eichwalder ke at gnu.franken.de
Thu Mar 20 14:43:40 GMT 2008


>> Things not too important, we are rendering highly visible with the nice
>> black color.  They are also obfuscating tracks:
>>
>> http://www.informationfreeway.org/?lat=49.455373790593406&lon=11.175777321956557&zoom=14&layers=0000F0B0F
>
> Er, I think you must have pasted the wrong link?  I followed that one and
> got a very clear map with tracks and powerlines and no serious conflict
> between the two.  Seriously, that map looks very good to me.

Agreed, it looks much better on my Linux machine than on the Apple.
Maybe an anti-aliasing issue.  Nevertheless the lines are too
visible, at least in "farm" areas:

http://www.informationfreeway.org/?lat=49.49948648513156&lon=11.006926936622994&zoom=14&layers=0000F0B0F

Probably we also need more attributes to distinguish between main and
minor power lines.





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