[Tilesathome] More features

[80n]

On 6/7/07, David Earl <david at frankieandshadow.com> wrote:
>
> 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.


The name of Hotels, Hostels and Camp sites will be now be rendered if they
have a name tag.  I had tried to include them but erroneously implemented
amenity=hotel, it should have been tourism=hotel.


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


They do look nice don't they - I didn't expect them to work as well as they
do (and you missed the test cycle that rendered Cambridge as one giant
traffic light).

However, I'm not entirely convinced that they would work at z16 especially.
I'll give it a try sometime.


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.


Automatic splitting of long captions across multiple lines is on my list to
investigate.

It could be augmented by some kind of hinting mechanism.  Perhaps something
like this:

name=Newnham College (University of Cambridge)
multiline_name=Newnham College | (University of Cambridge)



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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