On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 11:04 -0400, Zeke Farwell wrote: > On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Lennard <l...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > On 20-6-2010 0:53, Val Kartchner wrote: > > > So, apparently we have to work it out ourselves before > they'll even > > consider making the change. > > > The problem is that once we add a tag to the stylesheet, and > it starts > rendering, it is very hard to subsequently remove it for a > better > tagging scheme. > > Especially now that there's this whole discussion on airodrome > tagging, > the quick request for aerodrome=rc_airstrip struck me as > "let's try to > get this one tiny aspect of that rendering". Implementing this > would > mean nothing for the abundance of airports now rendering in > mapnik, even > at lower zooms. > > I would love to be able to render some at higher zooms only, > based on > hints such as a specific tag for airport size and/or > national/regional > importance. A good and non-arbitrary tagging scheme would be > the way to go. > > So, now you know why I made those remarks on that ticket. > Discuss, > document, request rendering. Usually in that order. > > Yes, and we are currently in the Discussion phase. When I have some > time I'll try to get a proposal up on the wiki with the goal of moving > things towards the Documentation phase. I've never made a proposal > before so I need to figure that out. I also want to read over all the > ideas thrown out in this thread first. If anyone else feels motivated > and beats me to it that's fine too. > > > As mentioned before there already is a general importance tag > proposal. Moving that one along would certainly enable airports to be > rendered at different zoom levels. An airport specific tagging scheme > may be desirable too though. It may be useful for a future renderer > to show more detailed information about airports. > > > Zeke
I followed the directions from someone (I assumed to be) more experienced with OSM who told me (quote): >"i have a real problem with tagging highway=residential to get an >airstrip to look "right". instead, you should tag it correctly and open >a ticket to get the renderer fixed." I changed the tagged RC runway then entered the ticket. I have now been enlightened as to the proper procedure. - Val - _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
