[talk-au] Optimising map rendering for recreational use

2012-10-31 Thread Li Xia
Hey everyone, have an idea about map rendering and want to get your thoughts. One of the challenges is in rendering a useful map for recreational use is displaying roads, tracks, trails and to some degree water lines at appropriate zoom levels in more remote regions where the density is lower

Re: [talk-au] Optimising map rendering for recreational use

2012-10-31 Thread Ben Kelley
Hi. I think tagging for the renderer is a bad idea. Essentially you are talking more about render hints, but I think that becomes a matter of preference pretty fast. Especially when OSM data can be rendered in a number of ways. I think it is worth considering what about a road makes you want to