On 17 May 2010 17:32, Gregory <nomoregra...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Now a lot of places are full of pro-mappers, we are doing house numbers, > shops, football pitch lines... > Do we need an extra zoom level?
YES and I was thinking of posting about it but waited because I want to learn about simple tiles generation for small area using osmarender (where I could set my own zoom level and was suggested by amm at diary http://bit.ly/8Z6ieY ) . Openstreetmap could enrich the map experience like never before, now that some experienced mappers have started mapping shops inside a shopping mall . It definitely makes mapping easy in developing areas where most of the shops are situated side by side in a small area which is in contrast to UK/european shops which occupy large areas . Here is a small Tale of two shops : One nice lane in a bazaar of a small town I found two bakeries . One lies almost opposite to other . The nice bakery is called 'Taj bakery' other one is 'Golden Bakery ' Mapnik in a lower zoom level shows it as Golden bakery . I actually zoomed to a higher zoom level witha hope to see both bakeries . Unfortunately it could show only golden bakery :( Seeing it with data only shows the POI . I stopped mapping all the bazaars because Indian streets unfortunately are constructed as bazaars with sometimes collection of similar selling item. And I am forced to NOT map selectively some shop when I am mapping those bazaars . Selecting some shop as important and some shop as not important is very daunting task :( Higher population areas have close knit shops I am wondering why someone has not demanded for detailed mapping in those areas. Coming to extra processing power & bandwidth I think its time to move ahead . I think that atleast osmarender which has a lower zoom level when compared to mapnik and should immediately set to mapnik zoom level ( just a matter of personal liking towards osmarender ) -- pavithran sakamuri http://look-pavi.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
