[OSM-talk] Recent (last few weeks) T at H render changes

[Skywave]

Would it be possible to take the borders in the same rendering as you render
the text? The way they are now in the captionless tiles they are imho
invisible. Also it would be very nice to filter on admin_level

Skywave

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 10:44 PM, 80n <80n80n at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 8:59 PM, Alex Mauer <hawke at hawkesnest.net> wrote:
>
> > I've been looking at some of the recent changes to rendering of T at H, and
> > have some comments.
> >
> > Looking at the US at zoom 4 shows 3 distinctly  rendered zones:
> > East, Southwest, and Northwest.  Looking a bit closer, it seems like the
> > east is further subdivided into northeast and southeast.
> >
> > Of these, it seems that the southwest is the oldest (zoom 8 tiles last
> > rendered in January), then the northwest and southeast (zoom 8 tiles
> > rendered in early March), and finally the east (zoom 8 tiles rendered in
> > the last week or so.
> >
> > I have the following observations:
> >
> > 1. rail is overemphasized in the oldest zone, but completely absent in
> > the newer ones.  This is unfortunate.
> >
>
> I agree.
>
>
> >
> > 2.  State borders are missing or absent in all but the oldest.
> >
>
> I think state borders are there, they are just drowned out by secondary
> roads.
>
>
> >
> > 3. secondary roads are overemphasized in the newest zone.  It makes
> > whole areas into orange blobs.
> > (http://a.tah.openstreetmap.org/Tiles/tile/6/17/24.png for example)
> > They were about right in the middle-aged one.
> >
>
> Agree, although someone commented recently that many secondary roads
> imported by TIGER should more realistically be tagged as tertiary.
>
>
> >
> > 4. primary roads are underemphasized in the middle-aged zones, but about
> > right in the newest zone.
> >
>
> Agreed.
>
>
>
> >
> > What do others think?
> >
> >
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