[OSM-talk] New Mapnik Style

[Gert Gremmen]

In general roads have been drawn too wide.
While it is difficult to draw roads "on scale" 
in terms of width, the new mapnik style is too wide.

Look here at level 15:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.98053&lon=4.36659&zoom=15&layers=B0
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where residential roads start to overlap.

And here (this was already in the previous style)

http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.98473&lon=4.37146&zoom=17&layers=B0
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where cycle ways aside the Schieweg road are invisible due to the width
of
the road..

Of course some width is necessary for labeling, but the font size can be
further reduced  or printing the name can be equal to or exceed the
width of the road
for the length of the name. This is already partly the case with the y
and g descenders
but could also be done for the higher parts of capital letters and
thelike.
(see second example)

Gert Gremmen