Islands are named (on mapnik layer) if you use the place=island tag.
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On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Tom Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Erik Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can mapnik automatically render names for smaller towns in lower zoom
levels if there is room for the labels? Or should we have a
mapnik_zoom_level=6 tag? This is a problem for
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Inge Wallin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* Names! There are far too few names on the map, especially on low zoom
levels. It's difficult to get a feeling for where you are and orient yourself
on the map if you cannot find names on the map. The commercial maps show
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Erik Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Inge Wallin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* Names! There are far too few names on the map, especially on low zoom
levels. It's difficult to get a feeling for where you are and orient
This is a mail that I have been wanting to send for some time, but wanted to
think a little more about the subject before I actually did.
The topic is how the maps of OpenStreetMap are actually used by ordinary
users. I know that the data of OSM is supposed to be used in new exciting
ways like
On 28/07/2008 10:44, Inge Wallin wrote:
So the question then becomes, is the current renderings good? For which
purposes?
Everyone will have their own desires and requirements. To achieve what
people want, I think easy configurability is what is needed.
Pre-rendered map tiles make that
Hi,
So, what are other use cases for OSM? Are the current OSM renderings good for
those use cases? Do we need more different renderings for different use
cases?
We are not a map rendering project. We are a Geodata collection project.
The fact that we have maps at all is more or less to
Inge Wallin wrote:
* Distinctions between roads. In opposition to the case for names, there are
too many roads on the large scale maps. Here is what the current map looks
like around my home city:
http://www.openstreetmap.com/?lat=58.33lon=15.408zoom=10layers=0B0FTF
There is too little
Hi,
It's quite telling that if you look on the
UK roadgeek site, www.sabre-roads.org.uk (dominated by motorists),
they don't quite get OSM: they just whinge about lack of completeness.
Same here with pocketnavigation.de...
Bye
Frederik
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On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 12:16:53PM +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote:
[...]
change our maps to make them suitable for your purpose, but we should
enable YOU to create maps that are suitable for your purpose and others
with the same requirements.
Yes, we should. So lets see about the things Inge
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 02:21:05PM +0200, Jochen Topf wrote:
The biggest problem around place names is currently that there are only
a few levels for places: city, town, village, hamlet and suburb. And there
is no way to mark capitals.
There is always population=20, etc which can help you
2008/7/28 spaetz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 02:21:05PM +0200, Jochen Topf wrote:
The biggest problem around place names is currently that there are only
a few levels for places: city, town, village, hamlet and suburb. And
there
is no way to mark capitals.
There is always
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 02:48:15PM +0200, spaetz wrote:
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 02:21:05PM +0200, Jochen Topf wrote:
The biggest problem around place names is currently that there are only
a few levels for places: city, town, village, hamlet and suburb. And there
is no way to mark
2008/7/28 Jochen Topf [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 02:48:15PM +0200, spaetz wrote:
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 02:21:05PM +0200, Jochen Topf wrote:
The biggest problem around place names is currently that there are only
a few levels for places: city, town, village, hamlet and
Hi,
* The Logo in the upper left of openstreetmap.org said The Free Wiki World
Map (not Geodata Collection).
* The first sentence of the text under the logo said OpenStreetMap is a
free
editable map of the whole world., not ...is a free collection of geo data
It's easy to get fooled
One would think that getting all of the capitals tagged would be easy,
however going and grabbing it from sites linked to google I'm assuming would
almost certainly be a no no.
Can we use information from wikipedia?
For example.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_capitals
If
spaetz schrieb:
There is always population=20, etc which can help you to find the
biggest ones. And what prevents us from adding capital=yes to those
cities? I don't think that the tagging is insufficient today. OK
there might be a more subjective important city tag, and there are
Brian Quinion wrote:
One would think that getting all of the capitals tagged would be easy,
however going and grabbing it from sites linked to google I'm assuming would
almost certainly be a no no.
Can we use information from wikipedia?
For example.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_capitals
If I can use that, then I can find all the capitals, and just tag them.
How about geonames database - is that usable?
We cannot use data from geonames as the data is derived from Google Maps.
Jochen Topf wrote:
I find 207 000 places in Europe and only 57 000 population tags.
I've just done my bit by adding a population tag to Guildford. Only
149,999 places to go
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Jonathan (Jonobennett)
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