On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Daniel Tremblay <[email protected]> wrote: > I am not a map specialist. But I like the Openstreetmap concept.
Hi Daniel and welcome > For the past month, I have been adding details regarding cycleways in my > area. The new opencyclemap have been generated lately and I must admit that > I am a little bit disappointed. The major problem is that cycleway=track > doesn't show on the opencyclemap. Same for bicycle=designated. I've seen > discussion where that were already exposed and nothing seems to be done. OpenCycleMap has a new server. It is either just deployed or will be Real Soon Now. So some things may have slipped through the cracks. Consider sending a bug report, or checking again in a while. > I looked at way to do my own rendering of maps. For a non-specialist like > me, it seems fairly complicated. Even if I spend time to work on it, how > another non-specialist users will make it through? Some folks offer a simplified interface to do limited customization without the deep technical requirements of creating a fully custom map. And there are companies who will be pleased to help you. OSM as a project is only six years old. I would expect more tools will continue to appear as we go. > I've come to the conclusion that the tagging I can put there is almost > unusable by "normal user" like me. Unless ... > > Unless openstreetmap.org website proposes a simple way to filter > attributes. There could be a "simple filter" and a "advanced filter" about > the same as what is proposed on JOSM. It could appear when we click on the > "+" sign (Overlays / Data). As an addition, saving (with cookies to > simplify things) and sharing (just copy/paste for now would do the job) our > filters would be great. > > That way, I could filter things like (cycleway=* OR bicycle=designated OR > bicycle=yes). Those would show greyed on the map (just like when we select > an area on the map for overlays / data). > > That kind of filter might by usefull for many many needs. Example: > -surface=paved > > Just a thought. Just a suggestion. I have no idea what that implied! That does sound interesting. Is that something you might pursue? _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
