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

[Steve Chilton]

"Are the street names actually back at all levels?"

Can you expand on that one please, as I don't understand the
implication?

Steve Chilton, Learning Support Fellow
Learning and Technical Support Unit Manager
School of Health and Social Sciences
Middlesex University
phone/fax: 020 8411 5355
email: steve8 at mdx.ac.uk
http://www.mdx.ac.uk/schools/hssc/staff/profiles/technical/chiltons.asp

Chair of the Society of Cartographers: http://www.soc.org.uk/

SoC conference 2008:
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/cartographers08/

> One of the advantages of using greys and tonal variations of the road
> fill colours for the casings of the roads is that it enables black
> casings to be used exclusively for the bridge variants. I think that
> using black casings for roads would NOT help improve readability as it
> would make the text of road names more difficult to pick out and read.

Sounds convincing; thanks for the background info.
Are the street names actually back at all levels?