On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Richard Weait<[email protected]> wrote:
> I think the provincial / state borders will continue to be yucky on > the main map until mapnik supports rendering different style sheets > per region / country. My thoughts exactly, but does the OSM project support continent/country wide style sheets? I suspect not, so the next step would be to figure out who to query about this, and whether it would be concept that would be supported. Would this be something that would be up to the end user? If understand the concept, the main slippy map is just a place to show what is in the database, and it would be up to the end user to render tiles and create a display mechanism for their own use. > We, in North America, get to see what is > essentially a European style sheet, and as those countries are > smaller, rendering their states / provinces at zoom 3 is just as > stupid as not rendering ours at zoom 3. Yes, I agree that there's no way that we can come up with a style sheet that will work everywhere. I think that's why the mantra "Don't tag for the renderers" has come to be. People are trying to tag things so they render on the slippy map in a manner in which they would like to see. I think that some of that is being done already anyway, since the major highways in Alberta at least have been bumped up from Primary to Trunk, and now to Motorway. With them tagged as Trunk or Motorway they show up until zoom level 5, with Primary roads disappearing at zoom level 7. You need to be at zoom level 5 before you can see the whole province, but the provincial admin boundary doesn't show up until zoom level 11. > P.S. re Sam's suggestion, just changing the admin level sounds like > the wrong approach to me. Yes, that would be tagging for the renderer in my interpretation. James VE6SRV _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
