place=* polygon rendering

[openstreetmap-trac]

Reporter: Aleksandr Dezhin
[Submitted to the original trac issue database at 10.16am, Monday, 12th April 2010]

Please add support for rendering place = city|town|village|hamlet|suburb.

The problem is that many people want to see on map the boundaries of settlements ... Therefore, they represent them as a place=* + boundary=* + admin_level=*. But not always the border of settlements can be considered "administrative". Many of the settlements, at least in Russia (and I think in other countries too), are not independent administrative units. (see http://tinyurl.com/y7rr2c3)

In addition use 3 tags that you can designate one not a good idea.

Thus, I propose to add rendering for areas with place tag and there is no boundary tag:

city, town: #888888 Alpha=50%; 2-3 dashed line; width = 2; starting at z13[[BR]]
village, hamlet, suburb: #888888 Alpha=50%; 2-3 dashed line; width = 1; starting at z15

You can use any other designation, if you find it not very suitable. But I think that we in any case is to show the boundary of place=* tag.

Thanks!

[openstreetmap-trac]

Author: Aleksandr Dezhin
[Added to the original trac issue at 9.14pm, Monday, 12th April 2010]

Also this will help avoid a situation where mappers doing pretty strange things, like setting landuse = residential on the entire territory of the settlement. For example, there http://osm.org/go/1i6A9NM-

[openstreetmap-trac]

Author: Stefano Salvador
[Added to the original trac issue at 2.52pm, Wednesday, 8th September 2010]

I approve this proposal, better if "type=label" relation is supported (ticket 3110).

[openstreetmap-trac]

Author: komzpa[at]gmail.com
[Added to the original trac issue at 8.32pm, Sunday, 3rd October 2010]

An example of such place, not rendered polygons in Mapnik:
http://osm.org/go/0twic6Xw-

[openstreetmap-trac]

Author: pnorman
[Added to the original trac issue at 1.54am, Wednesday, 26th March 2014]

The old openstreetmap.xml style (Mapnik component in trac) has been replaced by openstreetmap-carto, which has an issue tracker at https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues.

This particular issue has been superseded by gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto#103