Hi Minko, I am sorry for this awfully late reply. On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 11:55:54AM +0100, Minko wrote:
I have also some suggestions/comments to the default style:
Lines:
highway=pedestrian (roadtype 0x06) has the same line type as unclassified roads, why? Garmin has also a line type 0x0d [Pedestrian area] which is routable as well.
Your suggestion of replacing the 0x06 with 0x0d makes sense, provided that it is routeable and does not imply bicycle=no. (In Finland, bicycling up to 20 km/h is allowed on pedestrian areas.)
a suggestion could be to change this into 0x0d or the same as footway, 0x16
How would you identify a footway? There is some path/cycleway/footway controversy and ambiguity going on. Something like this? highway=footway & bicycle=(yes|designated|permissive|official) [ 0x16 ] highway=footway [ 0x0d ] # other cases than the above highway=path & bicycle=no [ 0x0d ] highway=path & bicycle!=no [ 0x16 ] highway=cycleway [ 0x16 ]
In my custom styles I use type 0x0d for footways, paths, pedestrian ways and they route fine Line Type 0x16 can then be used for cycleways, which are now rendered the same as footways in the default style.
Right, it could be useful to distinguish cycleways (or foot-and-cycleways) from foot-only ways.
Other line types that are routable can be used as well to distinguish more type of highways that are rendered the same in the default map: 0x0e 0x0f 0x10 0x11 0x12 0x13
Think about bridges, tunnels, steps etc
I am a little reserved about this, but I agree that this could be useful with a TYP file.
Polygons:
add landuse=grass to landuse=meadow add natural=heath [0x20 resolution 20]? add natural=sand | surface=sand to natural=beach
According to http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Editing_OSM_Map_On_Garmin/Area_Types the 0x20 could work, but I would have to test it. There is no natural=beach in the default style. What did you have in mind?
I wrote earlier about a proposal to put some kind of standard TYP file to the default styles. The Mapnik ones from Lionel aka Petrovsk are suitable for this and he already give his permission to enhance it. Maybe this can be worked out and translated it into German, English etc
I can help with a Finnish translation. How would this TYP file be maintained? Is there some editable (text) format and an editor that is free software? Quite a while back, I was toying with the idea of composing a TYP file from an assembler source file, but I never got around to completing it. Best regards, Marko