On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Jochen Topf <[email protected]> wrote:
> Actually the best we have is the actual tagging in the database. Works > wonderfully. I disagree. Can you show me how to make rendering rules (I am mostly interested in Mapnik, but any renderer will do as a proof of concept), which does not draw a border line along the coastline of Germany and at the territorial waters border of Germany? f you look at almost any non-OSM map, that be an Atlas of the World from you bookshelf, a tourist map of Europe or most (if not all) online maps, you will not see halos around islands and coastlines. This is not because the data to make them have been unavailable for the mapmakers, but because the mapmakers have made a choice not to show these borders or show them differently (perhaps as a thin blue line). If we tag maritime borders the same way as land borders, it will be very difficult for someone using OSM data to avoid drawing halos, with todays renderers I would even call it impossible. I think we should make it easy to follow long established cartographic conventions for general purpose maps using OSM data, and at the same time making it fairly easy to make a special purpose map. - Gustav
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