Islands are named (on mapnik layer) if you use the place=island tag.
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On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Tom Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Erik Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Can mapnik automatically render names for smaller towns in lower zoom
>> levels if there is room for the labels? Or should we have a
>> "mapnik_zoom_level=6" tag? This is a
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Erik Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Inge Wallin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> * Names! There are far too few names on the map, especially on low zoom
>> levels. It's difficult to get a feeling for where you are and
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Inge Wallin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> * Names! There are far too few names on the map, especially on low zoom
> levels. It's difficult to get a feeling for where you are and orient yourself
> on the map if you cannot find names on the map. The commercial maps
Inge Wallin wrote:
>Sent: 28 July 2008 1:33 PM
>To: talk@openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk]Actually using OpenStreetMap and the usability of
>the current maps
>
snip.
>Two things. First: YES, please make it easier to create suitable adapted
>maps. Second: My po
Jochen Topf wrote:
> I find 207 000 places in Europe and only 57 000 population tags.
I've just done my bit by adding a population tag to Guildford. Only
149,999 places to go
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>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_capitals
>>> If I can use that, then I can find all the capitals, and just tag them.
>> How about geonames database - is that usable?
> We cannot use data from geonames as the data is derived from Google Maps.
> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/piper
Brian Quinion wrote:
>> One would think that getting all of the capitals tagged would be easy,
>> however going and grabbing it from sites linked to google I'm assuming would
>> almost certainly be a no no.
>>
>> Can we use information from wikipedia?
>>
>> For example.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.or
spaetz schrieb:
> There is always population=20, etc which can help you to find the
> biggest ones. And what prevents us from adding capital=yes to those
> cities? I don't think that the tagging is insufficient today. OK
> there might be a more subjective "important" city tag, and there are
> p
> One would think that getting all of the capitals tagged would be easy,
> however going and grabbing it from sites linked to google I'm assuming would
> almost certainly be a no no.
>
> Can we use information from wikipedia?
>
> For example.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_capita
Hi,
> * The Logo in the upper left of openstreetmap.org said "The Free Wiki World
> Map" (not "Geodata Collection").
> * The first sentence of the text under the logo said "OpenStreetMap is a
> free
> editable map of the whole world.", not "...is a free collection of geo data"
>
> It's easy
2008/7/28 Jochen Topf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 02:48:15PM +0200, spaetz wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 02:21:05PM +0200, Jochen Topf wrote:
> >
> > > The biggest problem around place names is currently that there are only
> > > a few levels for places: city, town, village,
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 02:48:15PM +0200, spaetz wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 02:21:05PM +0200, Jochen Topf wrote:
>
> > The biggest problem around place names is currently that there are only
> > a few levels for places: city, town, village, hamlet and suburb. And there
> > is no way to mark
2008/7/28 spaetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 02:21:05PM +0200, Jochen Topf wrote:
>
> > The biggest problem around place names is currently that there are only
> > a few levels for places: city, town, village, hamlet and suburb. And
> there
> > is no way to mark capitals.
>
> The
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 02:21:05PM +0200, Jochen Topf wrote:
> The biggest problem around place names is currently that there are only
> a few levels for places: city, town, village, hamlet and suburb. And there
> is no way to mark capitals.
There is always population=20, etc which can help y
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 12:16:53PM +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> [...]
> change our maps to make them suitable for your purpose, but we should
> enable YOU to create maps that are suitable for your purpose and others
> with the same requirements.
Yes, we should. So lets see about the things Inge
Hi,
> It's quite telling that if you look on the
> UK roadgeek site, www.sabre-roads.org.uk (dominated by motorists),
> they don't quite get OSM: they just whinge about lack of completeness.
Same here with pocketnavigation.de...
Bye
Frederik
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Inge Wallin wrote:
> * Distinctions between roads. In opposition to the case for names, there are
> too many roads on the large scale maps. Here is what the current map looks
> like around my home city:
> http://www.openstreetmap.com/?lat=58.33&lon=15.408&zoom=10&layers=0B0FTF
> There is too litt
Hi,
> So, what are other use cases for OSM? Are the current OSM renderings good for
> those use cases? Do we need more different renderings for different use
> cases?
We are not a map rendering project. We are a Geodata collection project.
The fact that we have maps at all is more or less to s
On 28/07/2008 10:44, Inge Wallin wrote:
> So the question then becomes, is the current renderings good? For which
> purposes?
Everyone will have their own desires and requirements. To achieve what
people want, I think easy configurability is what is needed.
Pre-rendered map tiles make that har
This is a mail that I have been wanting to send for some time, but wanted to
think a little more about the subject before I actually did.
The topic is how the maps of OpenStreetMap are actually used by ordinary
users. I know that the data of OSM is supposed to be used in new exciting
ways like
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