On 27 Apr 2007, at 10:55, Alexander Wright wrote: > > I've noticed that, in towns especially, you can get two lanes with > a divider > between them, technically a dual carridge way, that don't look good > when > rendered. >
This happens in Edinburgh too. <http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html? lat=55.9221509160735&lon=-3.29417479078443&zoom=15> and compare Mapnik and osmarenderer. Compare a few different levels surrounding the link. > Most especially when trunk roads go through towns. The larger size, > when > rendered, of trunk roads means that labels tend to get overwritten > by the > other carridgeway. > > Would it be better to map such roads as a single way with a tag > "carridges=2" > and have the renderer do something better? Since Mapnik can do a decent rendering of the names, this is a renderer issue and not a data issue. It is better from a route planning perspective and closeup drawing point of view to keep the two carriageways separate. Shaun _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk-gb
