Indeed, yet rendering issues have to work on a foundation of tagging. In the old days of paper maps a cartographer made the decisions about what's notable enough to show. Here we have to do it with tags (and consensus tags at that).
To infer notability of building outlines, there are some possibilities: The buildings with the highest building:levels have a form of notability. Buildings near to those may count in some way. A commercial landuse may trigger rendering building outlines (that was typical on paper maps). As more and more data is imported the issue of cutting down rendering becomes more and more important. That was the point of the thought: are there ways we can tweak tagging so reduced clutter maps are correctly reducing clutter? On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 9:30 PM, Brad Neuhauser <brad.neuhau...@gmail.com>wrote: > Bryce, this is entirely a rendering issue. Map creators can (and always > to some degree do) select to display only features with certain tags, or > that have names, or are of a certain size, etc, depending on their audience > and what they're trying to show. For example, "notable buildings" for > tourists seeing the sights will be different than for locals going on > errands or out for a dinner and drink. That's why there's so many > different renderings. ( > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/List_of_OSM_based_Services) If you > have a vision for a new look, maybe you need to come up with a new one! :) > If you want to propose changes to the "Mapnik" style, I think you want to > submit issues here: https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/ > > Brad > > > On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Bryce Nesbitt <bry...@obviously.com>wrote: > >> While we're on the subject of building tagging: >> >> Prior to major building outline imports, OSM tended to contain mostly >> "important" or "notable" building outlines. People might do a business >> district, or the largest buildings in town, or the church, or zoo... but >> few did every house and garden shed. >> >> Now we have cities with all the buildings: notable and not. >> >> Is there a criteria or tag we could apply, allowing less cluttered maps >> to be made, yet still retain the concept of "notable" buildings that still >> show up on a reasonable human scale map? >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > >
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