Don't get me wrong. There are a lot of things that I think t...@h renders better than Mapnik. Bus stops at z16 rather than z17, mini-roundabouts with images that help you know whether you've remembered the direction=clockwise tag (in the UK), lighthouses, traffic_calming=chicane, and probably many more. This is just based on a quick comparison of a very small area. I mentioned I use maplint, although until I help it cope with things like maxspeed and maxheight with units (as I offered to do ages ago) it's becoming less useful to me. The not in map features highlighting just had me checking that fee=yes for parking (and perhaps parking=surface) aren't in map features, so adding too many details also makes it less helpful. The residential without name is fairly useful, as it shows me where I missed names (or where I couldn't make out the streetsign on the photo I took). The noname layer seems to take a very long time to update (and highlights many more roads than residential, though this too has it's uses for me when it does catch up as many of the unclassified lanes around here still have names for me to hunt down).
I don't understand the technicalities about the load discussion. I do know that when I zoomed in on Mapnik that some of the changes weren't visible at z17 (and z18 was mostly "more coming soon" images). Z18 isn't really much use for me as I don't have the screen area to properly appreciate it - it gives me such a small area that I can't really use it for anything. Oh, I did do a first stab at doing a parsable wiki page regarding units - see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:EdLoach/Units and provide comments if you wish. I think the idea (though this goes back some time) was replace the field type of "Number" in Map Features with a field type of, for example, speed which would link to a Units page speed section to allow the support of user defined types (something like [[Units#Speed|Speed]]) which would allow improved validation of what is actually already being mapped in the maplint tests. Ed _______________________________________________ Tilesathome mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tilesathome
