On Feb 18, 2008 11:21 PM, Frederik Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > > > By co-incidence, I was in contact with another mapper who's been doing > > > something like this to make low zoom osmarender rendering a bit > > > prettier. What's everybody's opinion of this kind of practice? Is it > > > not an example of compromising the data (which we want to endure) to > > > work around a temporary deficiency in one particular renderer? > > > > If the slip roads are not really underneath the other roads then > > yes it is definitely wrong (IMHO). The layer tag is meant to describe > > the physical ordering of the roads on the ground. > > I've had a similar situation on the talk-de list where some people > seem to have started adding layer=1 to tram tracks. I don't like this > all that much (a bridge leading over a road with tram tracks would > then need to be layer=2 etc) but it's hard to argue with them since > the tram tracks *are* on top of the road. The layer tag doesn't say by > how much... >
People take things written down too seriously, I'd argue that if a human being can step over it it doesn't count (at a bare minimum). I'm sure they think this too but just want tram tracks to appear above roads, which is probably a sensible idea, but this isn't the way to go about it. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk