Re: [OSM-talk] place=island rendering

2009-03-12 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Ted Mielczarek wrote: > Yeah, the unfortunate thing here is that this import probably brought in a > few hundred to a few thousand of these place=island POIs, and I would hazard > a guess that a large (huge?) portion of them don't have the physical island > bound

Re: [OSM-talk] place=island rendering

2009-03-12 Thread Ted Mielczarek
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Andy Allan wrote: > Interesting issue. The techy in me thinks that tagging the island (tag > the way) rather than a point may help, since that allows data > consumers (e.g. renderers) to calculate the size of the island (and > even, perhaps in future, the longest

Re: [OSM-talk] place=island rendering

2009-03-12 Thread Andy Allan
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Ted Mielczarek wrote: > I've noticed that there's a GNIS import going on in the USA recently, and > one of the types of POIs being imported are islands, which are tagged > place=island. Of course, the GNIS database contains some very tiny islands, > but Mapnik ren

Re: [OSM-talk] place=island rendering

2009-03-12 Thread Alex Mauer
Ted Mielczarek wrote: > I've noticed that there's a GNIS import going on in the USA recently, > and one of the types of POIs being imported are islands, which are > tagged place=island. Of course, the GNIS database contains some very > tiny islands, but Mapnik renders place=island up to z10. For ex

[OSM-talk] place=island rendering

2009-03-12 Thread Ted Mielczarek
I've noticed that there's a GNIS import going on in the USA recently, and one of the types of POIs being imported are islands, which are tagged place=island. Of course, the GNIS database contains some very tiny islands, but Mapnik renders place=island up to z10. For example: http://www.openstreetma