[OSM-talk] Mapnik rendering of Marinas changed
Dave F.
davefox at madasafish.com
Sat Apr 17 14:31:35 BST 2010
Richard Weait wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Patrick Kilian <osm at petschge.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>>>>> Is there a reason why Mapnik's rendering of leisure=marina has change
>>>>> from a blue area to a dashed border line?
>>>>>
>>>> IIRC there was a discussion in #osm which basically went like this:
>>>> [..]
>>>> "ok lets make it a blue dashed line and see who complains".
>>>>
>>> Count me as a complainer... I was wondering about that blue dashed line
>>> too - it does not fit well with the surrounding estuary and open sea.
>>>
>>> I'm in the process of mapping a marina and I spontaneously only tagged
>>> as a leisure=marina the water portion that is occupied by the harbour.
>>>
>> Open a trac ticket for mapnik then. Neither Steve nor the others in that
>> discussion had a strong opinion. Note that I didn't take part in that
>> discussion but merely witnessed it.
>>
>
> I remember that discussion, or one similar. The question at hand was
> how to distinguish the marina land area and water area from the
> surrounding land and water. The old-style marina-as-water made marina
> land area appear to be water. An outline, like administrative
> boundaries, does not have that flaw.
>
Old style?
When I checked up on how to tag them, the first time the examples I
looked at all signified the water area & assumed this was used in the
majority?
Is this not the case?
If there wasn't a strong opinion I'm not sure why they changed it.
Did they offer an alternative for the water area? Sea/River etc. doesn't
seem to cover it.
Wiki:
"This is a mooring place for boats"
To me this implies the water. You can't moor a boat on land.
> A similar argument was made for national parks. Rather than painting
> them all green, show the boundary, let the distinct areas within show
> through.
This will apply to almost any item that's an enclosed area.
I thought the layer=* tag was implemented to allow renderers to
differentiate.
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Going slightly off-topic, this appears to highlight a problem with IRC.
A unilateral decision has been made only by people in the same time zone
or with similar sleep patterns.
Am I correct in thinking there's no record of Instant chat? Was this
discussion transferred to a forum?
As this appears to be a disagreement about the tagging & not just a
specific render, shouldn't this type of discussion be in a forum so that
everybody can have their say?
Regards
Dave F.
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