[OSM-talk] Parking aisle as boundary of car park not showing

Richard Fairhurst richard at systemeD.net
Thu Sep 25 11:58:15 BST 2008


80n wrote:

> This is an interesting topic which is well worth discussion, but to  
> return to the original question for a moment.  The issue is that  
> mapnik is not capable of rendering a way that is both a path and an  
> area.  The example given was highway=service, amenity=parking.
> [...]
> Suggesting that the data be changed to accommodate the deficiency of a
> particular renderer is very much a case of mapping for the renderer.  This
> is a principle that is important to uphold.  Fix the renderer not the data.

Getting into specifics a bit (they both qualify as "the renderer"),  
this is perhaps more an osm2pgsql issue than a Mapnik issue.

cheers
Richard





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