I'm jttt. Unfortunatelly I was really busy last days so I didn't have time to apply the patch (it's not that easy, you may need to add offset for areas which have both name and icon, see patch for place_of_worship-icons thread). It would be great if somebody else apply the patch.
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Matthias Julius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marc Schütz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> There is a Trac ticket (http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/1226) with patch >> suggesting to draw icons on all areas where a corresponding node would have >> an >> icon too. User jttt wanted this change to be discussed here first, because >> some people have been adding nodes inside an area to have a symbol placed >> there, which would lead to duplicate icons now. >> >> So - comments? > > Some areas have that problem already (like amenity=parking). I see > no reason to treat different areas differently. If area features > ought to have a symbol on the map then the renderer should put one > there without needing an extra node for that. > > If people insist on putting those nodes inside the areas the renderers > should learn to ignore them - maybe. > > But, really, an object should not be entered into the database twice > just because some applications work better like that. If renderers > really need help with placing a symbol the whole thing can be made > into a relation referencing a node with role=symbol or so. I know > many people don't like the idea of having application specific data in > the OSM database, but this is far better than the alternative of > having both a node and an area for the same thing, IMHO. > > Matthias > > _______________________________________________ > Tilesathome mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tilesathome > _______________________________________________ Tilesathome mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tilesathome
