Hmmm, you're right, Mapnik render of riverbank is not as good as I thought. It would be good to get this sorted out. waterway tags feels better than natural=water, but that said breaking up the river into arbitrary chucks doesn't feel right either. cheers, Chris
----- Original Message ---- > From: David Groom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, 28 January, 2008 1:16:50 PM > Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Large Rivers > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Chris Hill" > > To: "David Groom" ; > > Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 10:59 AM > > Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Large Rivers > > > > > > I've use the waterway=riverbank (as described) on the Humber > estuary, > the > > Ouse and the Trent; it works well, including using > multipolygon > relations > > for islands. > > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.7296&lon=-0.6315&zoom=12&layers=0BFT > > Rendering in Mapnik is good, but the low-zoom Osmarender does > not > work. > > I'm not sure if this is a problem with the Osmarender definitions > or > that > > the low-zoom for the tile just doesn't get run. > > cheers, > > Chris , are you sure the mapnik rendering is good? For instance a bit > further inland on the Humber > > see > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.49024&lon=-0.77102&zoom=15&layers=B0FT > the rendering is not what you might expect. I think what you are > seeing > in > mapnik is the solid blue fill taken from the original import of the UK > coastline data. Whereas the area outlined in blue, but not filled > is > the > rendering of waterway = riverbank. > > David > > > > Chris > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > >> From: David Groom > >> To: [email protected] > >> Sent: Monday, 28 January, 2008 12:19:06 AM > >> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Large Rivers > >> > >> > >> ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "Simone Cortesi" > >> To: > >> Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2008 4:20 PM > >> Subject: [OSM-talk] Large Rivers > >> > >> > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > is there anything going on withthe "Large Rivers" > proposed > feature? > >> > > >> > > >> > > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Large_rivers > >> > > >> > For the time being, how do I tag large water bodies? Like the > >> Po > >> > > river > >> > in North Italy or Rhine in Deutschland? > >> > > >> > >> Create as shown on that page, but tag natural=water to ensure > >> it > >> > > renders in > >> mapnik > >> > >> David > >> > >> > >> > Thanks, > >> > S. > >> > > >> > -- > >> > Simone Cortesi > >> > > >> > All that is gold does not glitter; > >> > not all those that wander are lost. > >> > J.R.R. Tolkien > >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk > ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out there knows the answer. Try it now. http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
