On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 8:05 PM, SteveC <[email protected]> wrote: >> sorry to bother you, but I am looking for someone, who is able >> to change some drawing in OSM.
That's a pretty tall order, as OSM is a community project. No one person is in charge of "drawing in OSM" >> I mapped the jewish cemetery in our town and realized, that >> it is drawn with crosses. I searched for a possibility to change >> that, but didn't find a way. OSM really doesn't draw your cemetery with crosses. One of the map rendering sites is representing the area designated as a cemetery by filling it with a designated pattern. The one you are looking at is probably filled with a green background, and darker green crosses. >> Then I looked for other jewish cemeteries and found them >> drawn in the same way - with crosses. >> This is absolutely impossible, and I want to ask for your >> help to change the tag for mapping jewish cemeteries. Actually it is very possible, as you know because you have seen it yourself. What you are observing is just a generic symbol chosen by a specific renderer to symbolize a cemetery. A cross is probably one of the most universally recognized symbols for a cemetery, even though it does not represent every faith that can be found on the planet. If you go to the OpenStreetMap.org website, and click on the blue plus sign in the upper right corner of the screen, and select Osmarender you will find the pattern fill changes, and I think the symbol become a simple headstone. (The house of worship symbol is a house with a cross on top, again probably not what you would choose for a synagogue, nor a mosque, or any other religion outside of the Christian faiths) Have you added a religion tag to define the cemetery as being Jewish? What would need to happen, is that the cemetery would need to be tagged landuse=cemetery, and religion=jewish, and then the rendering engine would need to be configured to understand both tags, and have a style associated with that which would fill the area with an appropriate fill style. Each specific religion would need to define their specific fill style. Again, remember that the OSM project really isn't about rendering the maps, but rather the information behind the maps. The best way to ensure that the map looks perfect to you, is for you to render the maps yourself. There is no disrespect meant to anyone or religion in the icons and symbols chosen and in use in any of the existing renderers. They are chosen as generic icons and symbols that would be universally recognized to represent the item depicted, and simply that. James VE6SRV _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
