[OSM-talk] Survey: Bad Map Rendering

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

    I've been approached by a student of Geoinformatics who wants to
write her Master's Thesis about something OSM related. 

I suggested to look into the rendering topic: Where are our current
problems in rendering, can they be solved by simply improving the
renderer(s) or will they need additional input from mappers in the
form of "hints" or extra data, or are they maybe completely unsolvable
for computers.

I recognize this is more a general cartography topic than an OSM
specific one, but our "crowdsourcing" powers might come in if it turns
out that there are certain areas where map rendering could be improved
dramatically if mappers did enter a few extra "hints"; nobody else
could achieve that on a global scale but us.

I'm sure each of you must have some "pet peeve" with our map
rendering, some area you have mapped but which never looks right, some
place where you're always tempted to edit the map tile with the GIMP
before uploading it ;-)

I'd be happy to hear from you about such "areas of bad rendering",
whether they are bugs in there renderer(s) or just things that are
ugly for some reason.

Bye
Frederik

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