[OSM-talk] Mountain Passes - Display Issue

[Patrick Kilian]

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.


> 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...


> 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.


> 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.


HTH,