On Monday 27 October 2014, moltonel 3x Combo wrote: > > > > This extremely simple approach will probably result in reasonable > > polygons for label placement in more than half the cases. You can > > easily improve the algorithm of course to properly deal with > > various special cases, in particular the case of small islands > > within a bay deserves consideration. > > That's a very fragile algorythm.
Have you tried it? On the contrary - due to its simplicity it is a very robust algorithm, it will hardly ever generate something completely wrong and fail gracefully in difficult cases. And as said it is strait away to extend this approach to specifically take care of cases where it does not work so well. > [...] And until you get something working > reasonably well upstreamed in all data consumers, we mappers should > bite the bullet and map bays as areas No, that is not how OSM works. The mappers can choose a method to map they deem appropriate - which in this case quite clearly is nodes (less than 0.5 percent ways and relations according to taginfo). If you want to get the mappers to change their mapping you need to convince them that it is better to do so and just making it easier for those rendering maps is not a convincing argument, even in cases where unlike here there is no additional work involved. Of course by not rendering bays mapped as nodes in the standard style you could 'encourage' mappers to change their approach. This however would be mapping for the renderer which is generally frowned upon. I can't help but notice that in the whole discussion here no argument has been put formward indicating a practical advantage of bays mapped as polygons other than the ease of rendering labels. > (in other words, not treat them > any different than any other area-like obbjects in osm). You mean like place=town, place=city etc? SCNR. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
