On Friday 17 June 2016, Amacri wrote: > Many trekkers and bikers consider that the current Mapnik style > provides an unsightly rendering of mountain areas and I am with them. > Among the many aspects that would need improvement, there is a need > that notable places which are effective references in a mountainous > area could not only be shown at high zoom level (e.g., >=16 or >=17) > but also at medium zooms (e.g., >=13 or 14), in accordance with the > common practice used in standard topographic maps (e.g., 1:50000 - > 1:25000 - 1:10000).
Keep in mind that because Mercator is a variable scale projection there is no direct relationship between zoom level and scale. At a typical resolution computer screen z13 for example can be somewhere between about 1:70000 (Equator) and 1:8000 (northern Greenland). > With this preamble, it might appear rather complex to discuss about a > proposal aiming to address a different visibility of reference > elements in scarcely populated places. Would it be possible or this > will lead too far away from the actual OSM/osm-carto implementation > and trend? Something in that direction has already been discussed: https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/1957 -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
