On 28 Apr 2007, at 13:44, Bruce Cowan wrote: > On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 10:55 +0100, Alexander Wright wrote: > >> Would it be better to map such roads as a single way with a tag >> "carridges=2" >> and have the renderer do something better? > > I (and many others) are against modifying data to suit a renderer, it > would be better to fix the renderer. > > The trouble here is that each carriageway is represented separately, > which is a more correct interpretation of reality. > > Theoretically 2 parallel ways could be merged for rendering > purposes, I > heard this is a possibility.
It seems that the Mapnik renderer already does the merge for relevant zoom levels, however osmarenderer doesn't merge parallel ways. See also: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2007-April/ 000490.html> -- Shaun _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk-gb
