Re: [OSM-talk] Survey: Bad Map Rendering

2008-03-24 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frederik Ramm wrote: | I'd be happy to hear from you about such areas of bad rendering, | whether they are bugs in there renderer(s) or just things that are | ugly for some reason. It's kind of been mentioned already, but Dual carriageways should

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey: Bad Map Rendering

2008-03-24 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Frederik Ramm skrev: For super bonus points, do all this in XSLT. Or while undergoing dental surgery. Bye Frederik You surely misswrote that, Frederik ? You must have meant an instead of dent ? ;) Having tried both, I can assure you the former is more painfull - and for a longer

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey: Bad Map Rendering

2008-03-22 Thread Martin Simon
2008/3/21, Mike Collinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Close roughly parallel ways, where the rendering of one way makes the other way disappear. Swedish cycleways (God's gift to mankind) next to roads are my nightmare, but I see other examples such as roads and railways/canals, big roads next to little

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey: Bad Map Rendering

2008-03-22 Thread Karl Eichwalder
I'm sure each of you must have some pet peeve with our map rendering, some area you have mapped but which never looks right, Render name of peaks curved (I think on Mapnik they do not get rendered at all...). Make use of the paved/unpaved attribute. Osmarender seems to deal with this but I d

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey: Bad Map Rendering

2008-03-22 Thread Stephen Gower
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 12:23:57PM +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote: I suggested to look into the rendering topic: Where are our current problems in rendering For me it's the routemap problem - how to represent multiple routes sharing the same street/line/etc, for example bus routes, named or

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey: Bad Map Rendering

2008-03-22 Thread David Stevenson
Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, I've been approached by a student of Geoinformatics who wants to write her Master's Thesis about something OSM related. I suggested to look into the rendering topic: Where are our current problems in rendering, can they be solved by simply improving the

[OSM-talk] Survey: Bad Map Rendering

2008-03-21 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, I've been approached by a student of Geoinformatics who wants to write her Master's Thesis about something OSM related. I suggested to look into the rendering topic: Where are our current problems in rendering, can they be solved by simply improving the renderer(s) or will they need

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey: Bad Map Rendering

2008-03-21 Thread SteveC
Label placement. Sometimes the 'wrong' label gets precedent and one is hidden. Use spring-force placement on the labels to jiggle them until a fit is found. Anchor a virtual spring to the lat/lng of a node with place:city, name:Foo. The other end on to the label itself. Repeat with all the

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey: Bad Map Rendering

2008-03-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: I'd be happy to hear from you about such areas of bad rendering, whether they are bugs in there renderer(s) or just things that are ugly for some reason. Label placement (as Steve's flagged) and generalisation (i.e. stretching the geographical truth to convey the

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey: Bad Map Rendering

2008-03-21 Thread Sven GrĂ¼ner
Frederik Ramm schrieb: I'd be happy to hear from you about such areas of bad rendering, whether they are bugs in there renderer(s) or just things that are ugly for some reason. I'm sure you are alluding to the redundant captions of ways that are split up for bridges or of dual carriageways.

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey: Bad Map Rendering

2008-03-21 Thread Lambertus
Maybe routing is an interesting area to research as it is related to rendering and hinting or additional input from mappers. This is all AFAIK, sorry if I'm wrong here: So far we've seen a few examples of routing using OSM data but no real 'measurement' of how 'good' this routing actually is.