[Tilesathome] drawing icons on areas

[Jiri Klement]

I'm jttt. Unfortunatelly I was really busy last days so I didn't have
time to apply the patch (it's not that easy, you may need to add
offset for areas which have both name and icon, see patch for
place_of_worship-icons thread). It would be great if somebody else
apply the patch.

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Matthias Julius <lists at julius-net.net> wrote:
> Marc Schütz <schuetzm at gmx.net> writes:
>
>> There is a Trac ticket (http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/1226) with patch
>> suggesting to draw icons on all areas where a corresponding node would have an
>> icon too. User jttt wanted this change to be discussed here first, because
>> some people have been adding nodes inside an area to have a symbol placed
>> there, which would lead to duplicate icons now.
>>
>> So - comments?
>
> Some areas have that problem already (like amenity=parking).  I see
> no reason to treat different areas differently.  If area features
> ought to have a symbol on the map then the renderer should put one
> there without needing an extra node for that.
>
> If people insist on putting those nodes inside the areas the renderers
> should learn to ignore them - maybe.
>
> But, really, an object should not be entered into the database twice
> just because some applications work better like that.  If renderers
> really need help with placing a symbol the whole thing can be made
> into a relation referencing a node with role=symbol or so.  I know
> many people don't like the idea of having application specific data in
> the OSM database, but this is far better than the alternative of
> having both a node and an area for the same thing, IMHO.
>
> Matthias
>
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