[OSM-talk] Extra zoom level needed?

[john whelan]

Have a look at Maperitive.  Because the processing is done on the local
machine it gives you much more control.  I've been playing with .bat files,
you can run them from a desktop icon, to select some POIs and display them
but not others.  Being in Canada I also use the technique to switch the
display language, only works where the name:fr is available.

The other thing you can do is render from a local file so no internet
connection is required.  You do have to change the rules to point to local
icons though.

Cheerio John

On 17 May 2010 12:44, pavithran <pavithran.s at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 17 May 2010 17:32, Gregory <nomoregrapes at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Now a lot of places are full of pro-mappers, we are doing house numbers,
> > shops, football pitch lines...
> > Do we need an extra zoom level?
>
> YES and I was thinking of posting about it but waited because I want
> to learn about simple tiles generation for small area using osmarender
> (where I could set my own zoom level and was suggested by amm at diary
> http://bit.ly/8Z6ieY ) . Openstreetmap could enrich the map experience
> like never before, now that some experienced mappers have started
> mapping shops inside a shopping mall .
>
> It definitely makes mapping easy in developing areas where most of the
> shops are situated side by side in a small area which is in contrast
> to UK/european shops which occupy large areas .
>
> Here is a small Tale of two shops : One nice lane in a bazaar of a
> small town I found two bakeries . One lies almost opposite to other .
> The nice bakery is called 'Taj bakery'  other one is 'Golden Bakery '
> Mapnik in a lower zoom level shows it as Golden bakery . I actually
> zoomed to a higher zoom level witha hope to see both bakeries .
> Unfortunately it could show only golden bakery :( Seeing it with data
> only shows the POI .  I stopped mapping all the bazaars because Indian
> streets unfortunately are constructed as bazaars with sometimes
> collection of similar selling item. And I am forced to NOT map
> selectively some shop when I am mapping those bazaars . Selecting some
> shop as important and some shop as not important is very daunting task
> :(  Higher population areas have close knit shops I am wondering why
> someone has not demanded for detailed mapping in those areas.
>
> Coming to extra processing power & bandwidth  I think its time to move
> ahead . I think that atleast osmarender which has a lower zoom level
> when compared to mapnik and should immediately set to mapnik  zoom
> level ( just a matter of personal liking towards osmarender )
>
>
>
>
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