[OSM-talk] Survey: Bad Map Rendering

[Sven Grüner]

Frederik Ramm schrieb:
> 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.

I'm sure you are alluding to the redundant captions of ways that are
split up for bridges or of dual carriageways. But I feel that problem
needs to be solved by both, mappers and programmers. Surely it's
possible for the renderer to analize name and ref-tags and assume that
several pieces make up one whole way but that doesn't seem right to me.
The data itself should tell that one way is a whole. Same applies to
dual carriageways where the data should tell they belong together.

Another thing that could purely be solved by code is placing additional
captions on large objects. At high zooms you often have to pan in order
to see the name of an object. Google has some kind of algorithm
repeating a caption every x meters so that's always a caption within
view. This applies to ways as well as areas (lakes).

regards, Sven