On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Chris Hill <chillly...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > I notice that abandoned railways are now being rendered on Mapnik. I'm > not sure that this is a good idea. Fairly near to me there are a few > abandoned railway that have been made into footpaths or cycle paths and > they are tagged as such and render as such. There are also a few > abandoned railways that have gently melted into the landscape, with no > feature left visible on the ground, yet these are displaying on the > Mapnik render.
+1 from me. just because a strip of grass is flat enough to have had a railway line on in the past, doesn't mean it needs to be shown on a low-zoom map at a similar precedence to roads or railways. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk