On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 11:54, Richard Lyons <[email protected]> wrote:
> As a newcomer to merkaartor, I have perhaps missed some useful manual > pages, > but there are a few things I don't see how to approach. Here are two: > > 1. When plotting a road, each node is marked with a blue square, which > remains very clear. The linking segments are only marked by a thin > black line that is invisible when the background image is dark. How can > one alter the style of the connecting line? Making it red or yellow and > perhaps thicker would aid alignment when plotting small roads through > forest, for example. > In Tool->Style, you can choose a number of style depending on your needs. "Mapnik" gives a map close to the OSM slippymap. > > 2. Outlining a settlement with an irregular polygon is easy enough when > the > settlement is dense, but when it comprises scattered houses it would be > better to place a simple envelope in an invisible line so that the name > of the settlement can appear but not the arbitrary and meaningless > outline. This applies to other types of feature too. How is an > invisible line style applied? > > Firstly, there is a rule in OSM that you don't create or tag features "for rendering". Secondly, Merkaartor being an editor, all ways are shown by default. It makes little sense for an editor to have uneditable items ... Thirdly, I'm not the king of tagging but it looks like, in you case, the best way of action is to create a node rather than a polygon for this settlement - Chris -
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