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

[Dave Stubbs]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Jo <ml at winfix.it> wrote:
> Rob wrote:
>  > the logical solution would be to use the overlays in openlayers
>  > make a nice (basic) basemap and add some transparent overlays
>  > - amenities
>  > - powerlines
>  > - and so on..
>  >
>  bus line1, bus line2, etc... That's what I would like to do. It may
>  prove a bit hard for larger areas.
>
>  cycle network, walking network...
>

It might work quite well for some type of data, but to produce a nice
map for things like walking or cycling you quite often want to
de-emphasize the base map to a varying degree. So for a cycle network
you really don't want the motorways showing up in bold blue. It's OSM
though so you can always role your own like the cycle map.