Hi Toby, all, and sorry for replying to an old post. On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 03:57:41PM +0100, Toby Speight wrote:
0> In article <20090416102702.GA4109@x60s>, 0> Marko Mäkelä <URL:mailto:marko.makela@iki.fi> ("Marko") wrote:
Marko> Could the minor boundaries be displayed on close zoom levels? Marko> They can be useful when the neighbour of a large city is mostly Marko> agricultural. It's often nicer to ride a bicycle in rural Marko> areas, on minor roads with little traffic or intersections.
I have this in my style/lines:
/------ | boundary=administrative | { name '${left:country}/${right:country}' | '${left:county}/${right:county}' } | boundary=administrative & admin_level<5 | boundary=national [0x1e resolution 17] | boundary=administrative & admin_level<7 | boundary=political [0x1d resolution 19] | #boundary=administrative [0x1c resolution 21] | boundary=national [0x1e resolution 17] | boundary=political [0x1c resolution 17] \------
I haven't really tweaked it to my liking, but it shows the principle.
I adapted this for the default style last week. However, http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:boundary says that relations are used in order to avoid "name:left name:right, nation:right, region:right." I did not investigate if such *:left and *:right tags have been used in place of left:* and right:*, but I would like to remove the rules for left:* and right:* and solely rely on the relation names (one relation per country/province/city/suburb etc.). Seeing unnamed "State border" lines on the Garmin map should encourage mappers to define boundary relations. What do you think? Should I remove the rules for left:*, right:* names from the default style, or should I just add a comment to the effect that "these are deprecated, see the 'relations' file and wiki/Relation:boundary"? Best regards, Marko