Are the street names actually back at all levels?
Can you expand on that one please, as I don't understand the
implication?
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On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:55:02 +0100 (CET), Karl Eichwalder
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Things not too important, we are rendering highly visible with the nice
black color. They are also obfuscating tracks:
Agreed! Look at this map view:
Why not have them on a street map? They're highly visible features in real
life, and you can use them as navigation features. Already they're the
thinnest line on our maps (and yes, they're shown on OS maps of the area
too)
This is the pub on your map, showing how 'turn at the power lines' is a
Tom Chance schrieb:
I don't think they should even be visible in urban areas like this on our
main street map, what use are they? I can see how they would be useful for
a walking map in sparse rural areas, but otherwise they're:
a) Not obvious (what other street map has power lines on it?)
Things not too important, we are rendering highly visible with the nice
black color. They are also obfuscating tracks:
http://www.informationfreeway.org/?lat=49.455373790593406lon=11.175777321956557zoom=14layers=F0B0F
Er, I think you must have pasted the wrong link? I followed that one
Sven Grüner wrote:
That once again throws up the general question which purpose the
(official) maps displayed at openstreetmap.org should serve.
A) Should they be a neat, beautiful (street-) map flattering the
eyes of
people who are used to the map-design of Google?
or
B) Should they
One of the advantages of using greys and tonal variations of the road
fill colours for the casings of the roads is that it enables black
casings to be used exclusively for the bridge variants. I think that
using black casings for roads would NOT help improve readability as it
would make the text
Things not too important, we are rendering highly visible with the nice
black color. They are also obfuscating tracks:
http://www.informationfreeway.org/?lat=49.455373790593406lon=11.175777321956557zoom=14layers=F0B0F
Er, I think you must have pasted the wrong link? I followed that one
the logical solution would be to use the overlays in openlayers
make a nice (basic) basemap and add some transparent overlays
- amenities
- powerlines
- and so on..
2008/3/20, Richard Fairhurst [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Sven Grüner wrote:
That once again throws up the general question which purpose
Rob wrote:
the logical solution would be to use the overlays in openlayers
make a nice (basic) basemap and add some transparent overlays
- amenities
- powerlines
- and so on..
bus line1, bus line2, etc... That's what I would like to do. It may
prove a bit hard for larger areas.
cycle
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Karl Eichwalder wrote:
| Things not too important, we are rendering highly visible with the nice
| black color. They are also obfuscating tracks:
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On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Jo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Rob wrote:
the logical solution would be to use the overlays in openlayers
make a nice (basic) basemap and add some transparent overlays
- amenities
- powerlines
- and so on..
bus line1, bus line2, etc... That's what
I'm sure any paraglider folk using the map would be glad to see power
line on there. Preferably as broad red lines! They are seriously bad
news and surprisingly difficult to pick out when they're not
silhouetted against the sky.
elvin
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