[Tilesathome] Feature request: NoName highlighting in Osmarender map

[Ed Avis]

Matthias Julius <lists <at> julius-net.net> writes:

>I would say, instead of showing debug information on the standard tile
>layer you should request to change the maplint rules to have maplint
>highlight the issues.

I think it depends on what the purpose of the Osmarender map is.  I thought that
the 'standard' OSM map is the Mapnik one, while Osmarender (which is faster to
update and tends to show more information, but is less aesthetically pleasing)
is a kind of debugging aid for people to see their changes quickly.  In that
case it would make some sense to highlight unnamed streets, if done in a
relatively unobtrusive way that doesn't affect other map usage.

OTOH, if the intention is for Osmarender to show the finished map for end users
then of course it should not be cluttered with highlighting for incomplete work.

I felt that there was some demand for missing-name highlighting without the more
heavyweight maplint output - the existence of the NoName map shows that at least
somebody wants that - and that adding some highlighting to the normal Osmarender
map would be a compromise between full maplint output, which is fairly technical
and verbose, and the current Osmarender map, which doesn't show the difference
between an unnamed road and a name which just isn't being printed because the
road is too short.

-- 
Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com>