I would never "cut in the data". I would just file a bug report with the renderer. OTOH I haven't looked at the raw data, and maybe with some slight retagging (without tagging for the renderer), it can be solved. Perhaps a tunnel=building_passage on the highway=pedestrian
just my .5 cents regards m On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 7:32 PM, Ruben Maes <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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