[Tilesathome] subterran waterways and living_streets

[80n]

Jannis
It is pretty easy to create new rendering rules for Osmarender.  For
tiles at home there is an osmarender xml rule file for each zoom level, and
there is some documentation about the format on the wiki:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Osmarender/Rules

If you install the t at h client you can then edit the rules file locally and
view the results without needing to upload to the t at h server.  It's not too
difficult.

If you want something to be rendered on the map then the best option is to
devise a patch to the rules file and then find someone with svn rights to
commit it.  There are several people who perform updates to the t at h rules
files and these would be the best people to contact as they are best
qualified to review your changes.

While both of the features you are concerned about are worthy of being
rendered, people should not expect that every tag that gets a vote of
approval will automatically get rendered one day.  If absolutely everything
were to be rendered then the map would become very cluttered and that would
not be very appealing.

As time goes on I would expect there to be more specialist maps appearing.
There's already one for cycle routes and I can imagine that there will be
one that focuses on canals and waterways sooner or later, and another for
public transport etc.

There is also, at the moment, some experimentation with using layers for
place names in different languages.  I can imagine that feature layers would
also be a possibility, enabling a greater variety of POIs to be shown.

So get stuck in and propose some patches.  I look forward to seeing
subterranean waterways and living streets being rendered on t at h sometime
soon.

80n


On Jan 22, 2008 5:32 PM, Jannis Achstetter <kripton at kripserver.net> wrote:

> Hello (first post to this list),
> I've got two issues with the current version of Tiles at Home/Osmarender:
>
> 1. Subterran waterways are still not rendered (I mentioned this some
> time ago on the wiki but never got a response).
> What I mean is that waterway=river and waterway=stream with tunnel=yes
> should be rendered as dashed line (and maybe thinner).
>
> 2. highway=living_street is on the Map_Features-page since about a week
> and I changed some residentials to living_streets which are not rendered
> anymore. They could be rendered exactly as residentials or with dashed
> casing, whatever the list preferes.
>
> I actually *could* do this my same, though I never really tried it but
> since I'll write some test at my university the next two weeks it would
> be quite nice if these (easy I think) changes could be commited by s.o.
> with experience at this topic.
>
> In general: What is the best way to propose modifications to the
> rendering-style of TaH? The wiki seems to be bad since no one seems to
> read it. Shall we just post to this list or make patches ourselves and
> send them so s.o.?
>
> Jannis
>
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