On Sat, 23 May 2020 at 15:53, Tomas Straupis <tomasstrau...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2020-05-23, št, 04:51 Jarek Piórkowski rašė: > > See also: not rendering roads or hamlets in very sparsely populated > > areas because we have one map style which needs to accommodate central > > European densities. > > OSM-Carto is a very well done DATA VISUALISATION. It is not a > cartography. What you're asking cannot be done with only tagging as > you will have ways which look exactly the same but will have to be > removed in one place and will remain in the map in another place. What > you're asking is accomplished in CARTOGRAPHY by "road network > pruning". It checks density/class of roads and removes minor ones at > the places of high density. It is one of cartographic generalisation > functions. All important generalisation functions take additional > heavy pre-processing and that is probably a reason why OpenStreetMap > does not have any Cartography projects yet. > The fact that most maps would look bare until you zoom in was the primary motivation for me creating my BeyondTracks Bushwalking Map ( beyondtracks.com/map). I show highway=path from zoom 5. I wrote up some of the technical details at https://tech.beyondtracks.com/posts/designing-an-australian-bushwalking-map/ .
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