On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:01:40 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Just what we are talking about, but missing a little information.
Very interesting... > > Similarly, Fort McMurray should have a dot representative of the > 50,000 inhabitants. The RM of Wood Buffalo is a large chunk of land, > and drawing an outline around it, and trying to say this is the > Specialized Municipality of Wood Buffalo is not representative of the > area. I'll do some investigation to see if 'common names' are rendered in preference to 'name'. This might prove a solution. > Well, I drew the city limits of Edmonton many months ago, as well as > the outline of Strathcona County, and Sherwood Park's urban service > area. They never get rendered. They might appear on the slippy map, but they may be being used elsewhere such as GPS maps, etc. > There needs to be a way to designate zoom levels. If you zoom out on > Edmonton, the label disappears behind Stony Plain or Spruce Grove, if > I recall correctly. Edmonton has 600,000 people in it, Spruce Grove is > about 40,000 I think. You have to zoom in pretty close before you can > find the capital of Alberta on the map. > The other 1/2 of the import stuff I'm looking at is to put the census information in --- edmonton,city,16-may-06,730372 --- If this were to be used by the renders it would sort out the layering of adjancent Cities/Towns. Cheers, Simon. _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
