[OSM-talk] Mountain Passes - Display Issue

[Shalabh]

Still does not appear on the mail OSM maps. Any clue on when is that likely
to happen?

Regards,
Shalabh

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 7:07 AM, Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Patrick Kilian schrieb:
>
>  Hi all,
>>
>>  Just to bring to the group's notice. I added a few mountain passes a
>>>> couple of days ago along with the hiking trails and waypoints
>>>>
>>>> When I now check on OSM, while the trails are there along with the
>>>> waypoints, the passes are missing. However, when I download data from OSM
>>>> using JOSM, I can see the passes along with the elevations.
>>>>
>>>> Any clue whats the reason for not displaying on the renderer?
>>>>
>>> Except for JOSM, I currently don't know any renderer that displays
>>> mountain_pass=yes at all (if there's any, please let us know :-)
>>>
>>
>> As of revision 18423 osmarender (the renderer used by tiles at home) does
>> too. It even renders name and ele(vation) if available.
>>
>
> Ah, sounds reeaaallly coooool ;-)
>
> Any idea when this will appear on the main OSM maps?
>
>
>  Problem here: JOSM simply displays a bridge like icon, but doesn't care
>>> about the direction (north, south, ...).
>>>
>> Osmarender does the same for single nodes...
>>
>
> To my knowledge, most of the mountain_pass=yes are connected to some (at
>  least highway=path) ways.
>
>
>  A "correct renderer" should display a mountain pass somehow like a bridge
>>> usually is displayed, following the direction of the way.
>>>
>> ... but aligns the icon along the way if the way is tagged with a track
>> or highway tag. This is implemented with a wayMarker rule as mentioned
>> by Dodi and uses a symbol very similar to the one mentioned by Ulfl.
>>
>
> Sounds cool. Do you have an example on the map, where it already is
> rendered this way?
>
>
>  As the mountain_pass is tagged as a node, it's unfortunately not that easy
>>> to get that direction, so renderers simply tend to ignore this tag
>>> completely :-(
>>>
>> Once a significant amount of the nodes without a way attached have a tag
>> indicating direction I can add that to osmarender as well.
>>
>
> My observation is that almost any mountain_pass=yes node is connected to
> some kind of way, so I don't think this is very urgent.
>
> Regards, ULFL
>
>
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