Hello everyone I surveyed near the new Virginie Loveling building near the train station in Ghent and mapped everything accordingly a few months ago.
There are three levels of public road and the result on the map looks extremely ugly and unreadable: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/51.03685/3.70898 3D maps can't handle it either (e.g. F4: http://demo.f4map.com/#lat=51.0367277&lon=3.7088474&zoom=19&camera.theta=71.119&camera.phi=94.252) The fact that highway=pedestrian is now *always* rendered on top of buildings (no matter what the layer=* values are) makes things worse. If you haven't been there, I guess you have no idea how this place looks in real life from looking at the map. I can't think of any application that would be able to do something useful with it. Routing works a bit but if you cannot read the map or get useful spoken instructions that's not really helpful. This has left me wondering ... Should we either cut in the provided data or wait for renderers and applications to be able to handle these kind of situations? A possible improvement could be something like Google Maps does: it shows a layer chooser when you come near a multi-layer place, both indoor and outdoor IIRC. This seems complicated to implement in the current setup and I don't expect any OSM map at all to be handling these situations gracefully soon. There are also problems near the Bruges train station, though it looks a bit less ugly at first sight. https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/51.19707/3.21997 Any ideas? Groeten Ruben _______________________________________________ Talk-be mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be
