Close roughly parallel ways, where the rendering of one way makes the other way disappear. Swedish cycleways (God's gift to mankind) next to roads are my nightmare, but I see other examples such as roads and railways/canals, big roads next to little roads, ...
Mike At 12:23 PM 21/03/2008, Frederik Ramm wrote: >Hi, > > I've been approached by a student of Geoinformatics who wants to >write her Master's Thesis about something OSM related. > >I suggested to look into the rendering topic: Where are our current >problems in rendering, can they be solved by simply improving the >renderer(s) or will they need additional input from mappers in the >form of "hints" or extra data, or are they maybe completely unsolvable >for computers. > >I recognize this is more a general cartography topic than an OSM >specific one, but our "crowdsourcing" powers might come in if it turns >out that there are certain areas where map rendering could be improved >dramatically if mappers did enter a few extra "hints"; nobody else >could achieve that on a global scale but us. > >I'm sure each of you must have some "pet peeve" with our map >rendering, some area you have mapped but which never looks right, some >place where you're always tempted to edit the map tile with the GIMP >before uploading it ;-) > >I'd be happy to hear from you about such "areas of bad rendering", >whether they are bugs in there renderer(s) or just things that are >ugly for some reason. > >Bye >Frederik > >-- >Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
