On Wed, 13 May 2020 at 11:13, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging < tagging@openstreetmap.org> wrote:
> > Dirt road may be highway=trunk if it is the main road of national road > system. > Muddy road, not even surface=compacted is highway=primary in some region. > > is it mistagged as highway=track? Then it is a data issue, not rendering > issue. > Currently tagged as highway=secondary, so I'll have a look at upping them to primary / trunk, thanks. > Same, same with the (OSM) villages / hamlets / remote dwellings that this > road serves. A single building out in the middle of nowhere, in the OSM > universe, is too small & insignificant to be noticed, *but* that pub, > with attached service (gas) station, general store & camping ground, is > also the major point of civilisation for that 1000 k's!, so how important > is it in real life to those people who are travelling through that area? > Extremely! > > This is sadly a hard to resolve rendering issue. Special purpose rendering > of OSM data may be helpful for such areas. > The concept of mapping "villages" as towns to make them show has been discussed several times on the Aussie list! Yes, yes, it's tagging for the renderer, but sometimes that seems to be the only way around things? Thanks Graeme
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