2008/12/20 Matthias Julius <[email protected]> > Ed Avis <[email protected]> writes: > > > Sebastian Spaeth <sebastian <at> sspaeth.de> writes: > > > >>The astethetic is in the eye of the beholder. While it is true that > >>osmarender shows more than mapnik, some prefer the osmarender look and > >>use it as their regular map. > > > > Heh. I would switch to Osmarender as my regular map if it had > highlighting for > > no-name streets, since I like to take the opportunity to add extra data > when > > possible. > > > > A missing street name is something that can always be fixed, so it > doesn't > > clutter the finished map - only a partially-mapped area. > > Not all streets have names. Barely any street in Germany that is > outside of a town/village has a name. I think it is only relatively > safe to assume that residential streets should have names. And I > guess this is why maplint only warns about those if they don't. > > Please, don't suggest to add no-name tags to all those streets to get > them not highlighted. > > And again, osmarender is not a debug map. It is about showing what is > there and not what is not there ;-) > > Here residential streets are the least likely to have names as most residential areas are gated communities with addresses being a building name or number within the named community, 99% of the roads (oo, the same percentage as made up statistics ;)) in these areas have no name...
BTW... I agree, don't make osmarender layer into a debug map... there is already the maplint layer, osmi and various other tools that can be used to spot problems, the osmarender layer is a base map layer... d
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