Ondrej Novy <novy@ondrej.org> writes:
i find building REALLY usefull when navigation. When you are not in car, but going by foot it's really usefull information.
Or perhaps unnamed buildings should be shown only when POIs are shown.
Here's an example of what I'm talking about: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=42.3921&lon=-71.15861&zoom=16&layers=B000F...
A random building outline seems far less important than a restaurant POI.
sorry, but disagree.
No problem - that's one of the great things about osm/mkgmap is that people can adjust it to make maps they find useful. I wonder if adding support to put larger buildings at lower-numbered levels makes sense. And suppressing lots of small buildings in dense areas, similar to the USGS "house omission tint". (I know, ENOPATCH :-) [I am still trying to get maps of mass made, and my first step after that is to tweak unnamed buildings down in importance or out.]