On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 08:07:44AM -0500, Milenko wrote: > Agreed. I think the current system works perfectly. The area shows the > limits of the parking lot, and we can place the mode exactly where we want it > and not have to fiddle around and make sure the renderer gets the icon in an > appropriate spot. Plus, we've all been doing it this way so it'll be extra > work to make sure you don't get two icons for every parking area.
I find the current system to be pretty dumb, when having already drawn an area, why should we need to put in a node as well? Manual, repetive work is what computers are good at and humans get sloppy doing. Also, you already get duplicate icons in Mapnik, which does draw icons on the areas, and as long as the situation is as it is today there is no way to get a parking area to draw nicely in both renderers. Why not go for the automated approach? If a shape proves to be hard to handle for the renderer we can tune the algorithm and make it better for all areas at once, instead of individual contributors having to manually insert nodes which are nothing more than rendering hints. -- Knut Arne Bjørndal aka Bob Kåre [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
