On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 12:47 AM, Ben Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: [ ... ] > Recently I read a suggestion for "zoom hinting" tags to assist / override > renderers in deciding whether certain elements should be visible at certain > zoom levels. Adopting an "assisted rendering" approach to hide various > ugliness could be a step toward having the best of both worlds.
Elsewhere in this thread, Sam Couter suggests that renders can automate this without hints. He's correct. In a presentation at SotM-EU in Vienna this year Andy Allan spoke of rendering while considering "sparseness", so smaller places are rendered when big places are further apart. This sounds like what Ben is asking for in this case, and without the need for a special rendering-hint tag. Having a place tag is good, having a population tag is good. "Faking" either of those for the renderer or otherwise seems bad. _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
