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

[80n]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 4:18 AM, Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se> wrote:

> 80n wrote:
>
> > I've made the following changes:
> > 1) State borders are thicker
> > 2) Secondary roads are narrower and the colour saturation has been
> reduced
> > 3) Railway lines are a little blacker.
>
> I have no opinion, but will add an observation that inconsistent
> tagging makes for a similar or larger difference.  The
> Scandinavian countries need to become more consistent in tagging
> before your changes will make any significant difference.
>
> In Sweden, one type of roads are tagged as secondary or tertiary
> in different parts of the country (by different contributors).


> This produces the same kind of reduction in colour saturation as
> in your example.
>
> Railroads in Finland are rendered very black (e.g. Osmarender
> zoom=7).  I don't know why.


Finland has not yet been re-rendered using the new style lowzoom.  One of
the problems with the old lowzoom was that it over emphasised railway lines.

>
>
> Roads that Swedes tag as primary, Finns and Norwegians tag as
> trunk.  On the lower zoom levels (mapnik, zoom=6), the map of
> Finland and Norway is full of green roads, but the map of Sweden
> is almost blank (because primary roads are not rendered).
>
>
> --
>  Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
>  Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
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