> >>> But one newbie deleted about 300 streets, seemingly for a
> >>> wedding-related
> >>> event map :-(
> >>
> >> ...
> >>
> >> I couldn't help laughing, that's actually pretty funny.
> >>
> >> Did you contact the user?
> >
> >
> > Yes, I sent a message, but got no reply. Perhaps they were too
> > embarrassed, so the revert will be initiated. It would be funny to get the
> > printed wedding invitation, containing just the remaining major streets!
>
> This kind of wedding map edit actually happened to my country in 2010. :-)
>
> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ph/2010-June/002314.html
I wonder what the intent of the user was? It appears to me that they were
attempting to create a certain type of map by altering the data. Here on
the list we would argue that the issue the user is tackling is a rendering
issue, not a data issue.
Is this a clue to a different way of rendering? In the same way that
streetmap and cyclemap have the same data but produce different looking
maps?
Perhaps a renderer could make a weddingmap :-D
It could work by having the user center the map on their one point of
interest, and then the rendering process would have high detail around
that center point, but have the detail drop off successively the greater
the distance from the center point. So minor streets around the wedding
venue would be rendered because that is useful for navigation and
parking. But minor streets further away from the venue would not be
rendered, because the intent is to highlight only the chosen point of
interest and major transportation routes to that point.
nick
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