On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Scott Atwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Adam Schreiber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Scott Atwood >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Do any of the renderer support the notion of rendering the same tag >> > differently in different regions of the world? >> >> I don't believe so. This has been brought up in the past in regards >> to highway color schemes. >> >> > Or would it be necessary to >> > add some other tag to US state boundaries in order to allow the >> > renderers to >> > render them more prominently? >> >> I'm not sure that's the way to go. > > I think the best option would be for the renderers to support distinctive > rendering in different regions without requiring any additional > disambiguation. Even though U.S. states are the "same" as French régions, > Swiss cantons, or German Länder, in that they are all first-order > administrative sub-divisions, the prominence and independence of those > administrative sub-divisions clearly varies dramatically from one country to > another. > I really don't mean to suggest that a tag should be added to the border to > indicate that the border should be rendered a particular way. But if the > renderers can't or won't support distinctive regional renderings, the > perhaps it would be appropriate to suggest a a tag that indicates how > important a particular administrative subdivision is? > -Scott
Scott, I understand your desire to see state borders, but when you go look at Europe in OSM, you'll see that there are no country borders either. Which seems more like a political statement than a simple rendering rule. Anyone on the European side of the pond have any comments about that? jessica (who apparently *really* doesn't want to do any real work today) > -- > Scott Atwood > > Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia. ~H.G. Wells > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us