Christoph Hormann

This was meant to be covered by #1793. While the problem is most visible on bare rock the current footway styles generally give poor contrast compared to the old path...

> z12, z13 difference is big Yes, that is because the background color is the same with and without pattern and the pattern is fairly dense. But changing the low...

We render roads with `covered=yes` the same as with `tunnel=yes`. So the shown results are as expected. Ideas how to change that to provide more differentiated mapper feedback would be...

This is not really a matter for this issue tracker (which is why it was just a side note) - but for a quick explanation - the ambiguity lies in...

I am open to the idea to rendering individual types of buildings in a distinct way - although there are many different ways of doing that other than using a...

>> I am strictly against rendering in a way that encourages mappers to apply tags to a building that do not actually apply to the building like for shops which...

> With churches and other religious buildings, apart from possible historical reasons, the main reason for their importance was that they (often) stand out in a town and are useful...

A single symbol pattern as we discussed in a different context in #844 could be worth exploring as a subtle technique for differentiating buildings at high zoom levels.

Since it was asked in #4723 - i don't have hard data on prevalence of road surfaces in Germany but my impression is that the relative percentages of surface tagging...

That does not appear to be an OSM based map so this is not really relevant here.