Christoph Hormann

Truly fixing this requires support from Mapnik (best approach would be to introduce some hysteresis in orientation switching - care would need to be taken to ensure tile boundary consistency)...

`zoo=petting_zoo` has 1572 uses, 1/3 on nodes, rest on polygons, Highest local concentration is in the Netherlands with 483 uses. I don't think any kind of outline rendering is going...

> Do I understand you correctly that you agree the current rendering is non-intuitive and doesn't really work? Personally, I don't think the rendering of `tourism=zoo` we currently have is...

The solution here is to come up with a suitable choice for a starting zoom level for the feature in question. So far all types of aerialways start at z12...

We have, in general, not been consistent in that regard with our scripts: * `get-external-data.py` - needs to be run from main directory * `generate_road_colours.py` - needs to be run...

Please use descriptive issue titles, based on the example this seems to be about rendering `railway=platform_edge` (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:railway%3Dplatform_edge) - changing title accordingly. `railway=platform_edge` with `ref` is used 5730 times at the...

A few observations here. According to the wiki history of the map key page (which might not be completely accurate) there are now 250 point symbol classes in this style,...

> More general - and this is a question for everyone: what do you think is the purpose of icons on the map? The purpose of point symbol rendering is...

> I run (really limited) test among random people (typically outside OSM community) asking some time ago to guess meaning of symbols on the map. The success rate was really...

To avoid misunderstandings - when i talk about _new features_ i am talking about categories a1 and a2 according to https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/1630#issuecomment-154371089 - which is unrelated to any github labeling. And...