[OSM-talk] Big Lakes
Christoph Hormann
chris_hormann at gmx.de
Wed Feb 18 22:36:09 UTC 2015
On Wednesday 18 February 2015, malenki wrote:
>
> >Lake Ontario and Rybinsk Reservoir have both been newly tagged as
> >coastline recently agaist the general moratorium:
> >
> >http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/27591832
> >http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/28625595
>
> Regarding the latters changeset comment this was done to see te
> object also in smaller zoom levels. I can understand this since I
> miss bigger objects of wood and water in smaller ZL.
Yes, this is the primary motive for newly tagging lakes as coastline.
The elegant solution to solve this would be to improve rendering at low
zooms by showing lakes in a way that does not require an arbitrary
importance rating by the mapper. This is not trivial though - a bit of
background can be found here:
https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/754
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Christoph Hormann
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