Make roads wider!

Petsamo · 2018-02-09T00:16:32.000Z

All of the roads should be wider at least on the higher zoom levels.
This would make the map look physically closer to whats it is in satellite.

Im not in charge here on OSM so i cant make it happened, but can somebody who is responsible press the right buttons (programs it) so it would render the roads wider in the OSM map?

As far as i can think, I dont see any reason not to implement it.
Can we make it reality this 2018 year?

wowik · 2018-02-09T08:08:45.000Z

You can use https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:area:highway to map wide roads more precisely.

kocio · 2018-02-09T11:15:51.000Z

The discussion about rendering is here, if you have something new to add, go ahead:

https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/180

SomeoneElse · 2018-02-09T13:51:36.000Z

Petsamo:

All of the roads should be wider at least on the higher zoom levels.
This would make the map look physically closer to whats it is in satellite.

Im not in charge here on OSM so i cant make it happened, but can somebody who is responsible press the right buttons (programs it) so it would render the roads wider in the OSM map?

As far as i can think, I dont see any reason not to implement it.
Can we make it reality this 2018 year?

Rendering “area:highway” would help where people have mapped those, but that’s far from widespread. It is however possible to create a map with any width highway you like. There’s a series of widths (and casing widths) at https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/blob/master/roads.mss#L63 - try experimenting with different values there. If you want help with setting things up have a look at https://ircama.github.io/osm-carto-tutorials/ , https://switch2osm.org/manually-building-a-tile-server-16-04-2-lts/ and https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/blob/master/INSTALL.md etc.

Petsamo · 2018-02-09T18:45:36.000Z

Thanks for the replies.

KOCIO & SOMEONEELSE, i use only the browser based iD editor. I dont know to use github and dont know how it works.

So if i use the key “area:highway” will it be rendered the same way as rivers, invisible stream in the middle and rivermarks shows visually the edges?

escada · 2018-02-12T04:50:06.000Z

Petsamo:

So if i use the key “are:highway” will it be rendered the same way as rivers, invisible stream in the middle and rivermarks shows visually the edges?

it will make no difference at all for the map you see on openstreetmap.org. Though, there is at least 1 rendering by a Polish developer that will properly show the area:highway., see http://osmapa.pl/w/area/?lat=53.44252&lon=14.54771&zoom=19&ol=PEFGABR

Petsamo · 2018-02-14T11:52:41.000Z

Yea, tried the key “area:highway” but it didnt show on the map.

There is the old way of making random size area by using two tags:
Key:area - yes
Key:highway - service

example:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/30368636#map=19/60.17081/24.94016

Tordanik · 2018-02-14T15:16:03.000Z

Petsamo:

There is the old way of making random size area by using two tags:
Key:area - yes
Key:highway - service

Sure, but that’s not for mapping the area covered by a street, it’s for plazas. That is, an area like a pedestrian square where there’s no clear direction of travel.

So it’s not an alternative to area:highway, which is for mapping the shape/expanse of a linear street.

SomeoneElse · 2018-02-14T16:25:22.000Z

Petsamo:

Yea, tried the key “area:highway” but it didn’t show on the map.

The are lots of different maps. If someone creates one based on http://osmapa.pl/w/area/ it will show it. Don’t worry about what the “standard” map OpenStreetMap.org shows; that is a very general map style. For any particular feature that you’re interested in there will always be a specialist map that shows it better.

What you can definitely do within OSM is to map the things that you can measure (like width for roads, for example).