[OSM-talk] Keep Mapnik relevant
Andrew Chadwick (mailing lists)
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Thu Jan 1 22:53:07 GMT 2009
Chris Hill wrote:
> I notice that abandoned railways are now being rendered on Mapnik.
I've been tagging local disused pubs with disused=yes and hoping that
the renderer will catch up with what was agreed in the wiki for some
time now :) Unfortunately there's an increasing number of boarded-up
pubs round here :(
So I raised
http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/1085
http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/1079
and someone else raises
http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/1268
so go figure. There's clearly a bit of disagreement about whether
disused and abandoned stuff should be shown. IMO they should not, not on
the Mapnik rendering at least. The prettiest, first-impression,
public-facing view should only contain active services and amenities,
ditto rail lines, roads, canals etc. because the average user will only
care about what's relevant and useful right now.
Tongue-in-cheek suggestion: new tag, visible=yes/no or relevant=yes/no.
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Andrew Chadwick
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