On Sat, 7 Nov 2020 at 04:34, Anders Torger <and...@torger.se> wrote: > > ** Due to limitations in area-based name tagging the map looks empty > just when zoomed out a little, as names disappear almost directly, so > despite detailed mapping and tagging the overview map is not as useful > as it could be. While the renderer can and does make proper decisions of > prominence for bays and strait made as areas, point-based natural names > often yield strange and misleading maps as vastly different sized areas > have just a point for the name and no other differentiator, there's no > way the renderer can make an appropriate render decision as the data is > not there. >
Welcome, Anders. That is a problem that we encounter all the time in Australia, where there are huge expanses of empty, & official OSM guidelines mean that not much shows :-( Can be worked around to a certain extent by tagging for the renderer by upping villages / hamlets to towns & making country roads highway=trunk but officially not approved. On Sat, 7 Nov 2020 at 05:31, Seth Deegan <jayands...@gmail.com> wrote: > A gravel area tag/tagging convention is needed. One use I’ve seen is > highways in particular seem to have gravel separator between the actual > road and usually grass. Standardizing a area (a way) with just the > surface=gravel tag could work. > > El El vie, nov. 6, 2020 a la(s) 12:34, Anders Torger <and...@torger.se> > escribió: > >> >> ** As a minor note, I've noted there is no good tag for anonymous gravel >> yards, which there are a lot of here. Abandoned quarry is the closest, >> but still not right, as only some actually were gravel/sand pits to >> start with. Those gravel yards are often leftovers from construction >> work or forestry often even locals don't exactly know when or why they >> were made. Today they are used mainly used for parking by people being >> out in nature, but they are not maintained so they are not exactly >> parking lots either. >> > Assuming of course that we're talking about the same thing - areas on the side of the road where gravel was dumped while road work was taking place? eg https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?relation=6007743#map=19/-36.41030/148.59385 or https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-28.169598,152.8911178,3a,27.7y,206.26h,88.62t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1shrpfOqOyE4oBith4P7iQzQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en (NB not the same spot! & G Maps used as an example only , not for mapping blah, blah, blah ...) These were discussed in the Australia list a little while ago: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-au/2020-February/013632.html with no real consensus but landuse=stockpile + resource=aggregate (gravel / sand / rock etc) was fairly well received. Unfortunately, though, that won't render :-(, although a counter suggestion of landuse=industrial + industrial=stockpile + resource=*** would :-) Good luck! Thanks Graeme
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