Re: [OSM-talk] mountain_pass=yes: combination with place=locality and rendering

2010-08-14 Thread Shalabh
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Ulf Lamping ulf.lamp...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi! Our current default maps will display mountain_pass=yes only at very high zoomlevels (z17), although these are often important geographic features. Especially road maps will usually display passes even more

Re: [OSM-talk] mountain_pass=yes: combination with place=locality and rendering

2010-08-13 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/7/28 Ulf Lamping ulf.lamp...@googlemail.com: But for me place=locality is not about the importance or renown of something. It's about a place that has a name but no significant other feature - which is not the case here. place=locality is about uninhabited places with a name, but whether

[OSM-talk] mountain_pass=yes: combination with place=locality and rendering

2010-07-28 Thread Ulf Lamping
Hi! Our current default maps will display mountain_pass=yes only at very high zoomlevels (z17), although these are often important geographic features. Especially road maps will usually display passes even more prominently than surrounding peaks. Nowadays people seem to fine tune their

Re: [OSM-talk] mountain_pass=yes: combination with place=locality and rendering

2010-07-28 Thread Niccolo Rigacci
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 11:21:13AM +0200, Ulf Lamping wrote: You can argue that place=locality (aka A Locality is a named place that has no population.) isn't wrong for a pass. However, we're not tagging locality together with other unpopulated places that have a name e.g. natural=peak,

Re: [OSM-talk] mountain_pass=yes: combination with place=locality and rendering

2010-07-28 Thread Steve Bennett
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Niccolo Rigacci o...@rigacci.org wrote: For bikers - at least in Italy Alps and Appennini mountains - a mountain pass along a road is often used as a meeting point or as a trip destination. So the use of place=locality is not so misleading. Yep, I was thinking

Re: [OSM-talk] mountain_pass=yes: combination with place=locality and rendering

2010-07-28 Thread Ulf Lamping
Am 28.07.2010 17:24, schrieb Steve Bennett: On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Niccolo Rigaccio...@rigacci.org wrote: For bikers - at least in Italy Alps and Appennini mountains - a mountain pass along a road is often used as a meeting point or as a trip destination. So the use of place=locality

Re: [OSM-talk] mountain_pass=yes: combination with place=locality and rendering

2010-07-28 Thread Steve Bennett
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 6:22 AM, Ulf Lamping ulf.lamp...@googlemail.com wrote: Wouldn't it be an idea to simply render a pass importance based on the type of highway it is connected to? That's a heuristic which will work well in some areas, but I doubt it will be flexible enough to give a good