[Tilesathome] The non-rendering of glaciers

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 11:14 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
<avarab at gmail.com> wrote:
> Currently osmarender does not have a rule to render glaciers, these
> are major landmarks in the areas that have them.
>
> Glaciers are traditionally white (#fff) in most maps, osmarenderer
> currently renders natural=land as #fff so there's the question of how
> they should be colored. White with a thick border of another color?
> Blue-ish? Something else?

Attached is a patch to osmarenderer to implement glacier rendering, I
went with a rendering suggested on the wiki [1] which fills the area
with #fafaff and draws a lightblue line around it.

I've uploaded this rendering to the main t at h servers for one glacier
in Iceland[2] for reference (screenshot: http://u.nix.is/glacier-z14.png)

It would be nice to get the name of the glacier rendered in the center
of it but I didn't know how to implement this, the diagonal lines
discussed previously might also be nice but I didn't know how do do
those either.

The rendering I've implemented however is similar to how glaciers are
traditionally rendered on maps, aside from lacking the name.

1. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Tag:natural%3Dglacier#Comments
2. http://server.tah.openstreetmap.org/Browse/slippy/?zoom=12&lat=63.78855&lon=-19.58213&layers=BF
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