On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Gustav Foseid <gust...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Jochen Topf <joc...@remote.org> wrote: > >> > Actually the best we have is the actual tagging in the database. Works >> wonderfully. > > > I disagree. > > Can you show me how to make rendering rules (I am mostly interested in > Mapnik, but any renderer will do as a proof of concept), which does not draw > a border line along the coastline of Germany and at the territorial waters > border of Germany? > Tagging the appropriate parts with maritime=yes or something would add valuable semantic information about these borders. It would also then make it very easy for renderers to suppress them or render them differently. 80n > > f you look at almost any non-OSM map, that be an Atlas of the World from > you bookshelf, a tourist map of Europe or most (if not all) online maps, you > will not see halos around islands and coastlines. This is not because the > data to make them have been unavailable for the mapmakers, but because the > mapmakers have made a choice not to show these borders or show them > differently (perhaps as a thin blue line). If we tag maritime borders the > same way as land borders, it will be very difficult for someone using OSM > data to avoid drawing halos, with todays renderers I would even call it > impossible. I think we should make it easy to follow long established > cartographic conventions for general purpose maps using OSM data, and at the > same time making it fairly easy to make a special purpose map. > > > - Gustav > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >
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