[Tilesathome] More features

[David Earl]

Thank you very much. I think that's a great improvement - lots of the blank
areas in Cambridge are now filled.

One un-named item I missed was hotels (and the icons are rather large at
z17), sorry. Also, I've just realised that rivers don't seem to be named.

Having seen the results, I wonder whether traffic signals could go in at z16
as well (as per mini roundabouts)?

Different issue: what's the possibility of putting newline characters (or
some other markup) into names and having the renderer split the string onto
more than one line at the newline? It would make for more compact rendering
around the icons for longer names.

David

> -----Original Message-----
> From: 80n [mailto:80n80n at gmail.com]
> Sent: 07 June 2007 01:09
> To: David Earl
> Cc: tilesathome at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: Re: [Tilesathome] More features
>
>
> David
> I've just checked in some update rules files that should address
> most of your requests.  I've done a test render of parts of
> Cambridge so you should be able to see the effect immediately.
>
> 80n
>
>
> On 6/5/07, David Earl <david at frankieandshadow.com> wrote:
> It's really nice to see that cinemas and theatres have started appearing,
> with their names, in tiles at home generated osmarender.
>
> Please can a repeat my plea for the following to be rendered also:
>
> Areas: amenity=school/college/university areas, perhaps in a mauve colour
> (all zoom levels at which landuse is already rendered)
>
> Nodes:
> - amenity=school/college/university/supermarket/library nodes,
> with icon and
> name (zoom 17 only)
> - traffic signals (icon only, highest zoom only - we already do mini
> roundabouts)
> - amenity=doctors/pharmacy (icons and names, zoom 17 only)
> - man_made=windmill (icon, at same zooms as churches)
>
> Names:
> - church and mosque names (icons are already there; names only at
> zoom 17)
> - parking node names (at zoom 17 only)
> - post_office names (zoom 17 only)
> - hospital names (zoom 15 upwards?)
>
> I really don't think these things will lead to a substantially
> more crowded
> map, though it may be busier. A lot of them (especially the
> schools/colleges/universities) will be in blank areas (since
> that's why they
> are blank). And if insignificant things like post boxes are
> shown, it seems
> odd to omit major items like schools, libraries, supermarkets. Schools
> colleges and universities are probably 20% of landuse in Cambridge.
>
> On the other hand, I think the size of icons for recycling, fuel
> and parking
> (at z17) could be reduced, and also the type size for suburbs.
>
> Also, I notice the type size for tertiary highway is less than residential
> and unclassified. Could these be brought in line with tertiary
> (we get more
> of the name visible on short streets if it is smaller, and the
> tertiary ones
> show it is perfectly readable).
>
> I think there's a strong case for putting the name of any named
> node on the
> map at z17, with a little bullet icon or some such, if it isn't something
> already rendered in some other way.
>
> David
>
>
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