[OSM-talk] Mapnik rendering issue with *_link roads

2012-05-04 Thread Maarten Deen
I finally found out what the issue is with this [1] situation. My issue with it is that IMHO it is not good to see the unclassified road rendered on top of the primary_link road. I made a test here [2] where the left primary is a primary_link and the right primary is a primary proper.

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik rendering issue with *_link roads

2012-05-04 Thread Richard Mann
Logically, you need to know the lower of the two classifications being linked, and it may also be useful to know the higher of the two being linked. So I record that information in links_lower and links_higher tags. Then it can be rendered very neatly. But I got flamed last time I proposed this

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik rendering issue with *_link roads

2012-05-04 Thread AJ Ashton
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Maarten Deen md...@xs4all.nl wrote: Is this behaviour of mapnik wanted? As I said: IMHO it is not pleasing to the eye to see the unclassified road rendered on top of the primary_link road. In order of priority, a *_link road is just below its * counterpart but

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik rendering issue with *_link roads

2012-05-04 Thread Richard Mann
That's why you need to know the lower of the two classifications being linked (so you can put the link just under the lower one) On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 4:11 PM, AJ Ashton aj.ash...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Maarten Deen md...@xs4all.nl wrote: Is this behaviour of mapnik