[Tilesathome] Promoting/demoting items

[Dermot McNally]

On 26/11/2007, David Earl <david at frankieandshadow.com> wrote:

> (1) Churches are currently rendered only at zoom 17. I think these are
> substantially more prominent landmarks than many other features already
> rendered at lower zoom levels. Therefore I propose:
>    - place_of_worship rendered as the usual symbol, possibly a little
> smaller, at zoom 15
>    - additionally with its name and larger icon in 16 and 17

I agree.

> (2) Render mini_roundabout and traffic_signals consistently. Currently
> mini_roundabouts appear at 15 and traffic_signals at 17. I propose both
> appear at 16.

I disagree. Traffic lights are not that significant in
forward-planning your navigation - that is, if I see a crossroads I
can see that I need to go right, but I don't need immediate
information about the traffic signals. The mini-roundabout symbol,
IMHO exists because, just as with full-sized roundabouts, you want to
see a roundabout-looking thing on the map. The older symbol was just a
scaled-down version of what a real roundabout might look like - they
allow you to infer the difference between a crossroads and a
roundabout. I wouldn't object to reverting lower zoom levels to the
old symbol, though (especially since the new one has the wrong
traffic-direction for driving on the left).

> (3) Render names of restaurants at zoom 17 (icon is already present).

Agree

> (4) place=village currently appears at zoom 13. I'd like to move this up
> to zoom 12 - having now done many villages around Cambridge the zoom 12
> map looks very bald.

Strongly agree. In Ireland, a _lot_ of places are villages rather than towns.

> (5) highway=tertiary currently appears in zoom 12. I'd like to promote
> this to zoom 11. (BTW, I think the recent changes to lower zooms is a
> bug improvement - much clearer rendering of place names).

Strongly agree. Same reason as above.

> (6) Render shop=<anything> with same icon as supermarket and name at zoom 17

Agree.

Dermot