I have added some details to Fulham Cemetery to help visitors: I have indicated all paved and unpaved footpaths, added benches, and added drinking water points. (The cemetery is popular with dog walkers so this is mainly for their benefit.)
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/51.480528/-0.215524&layers=N
The benches (amenity=bench) show up only on the highest zoom level (in the browser), whereas the drinking water points (amenity=drinking_water) show up 1 level sooner. Is this by design? The benches are just as useful for visitors and I think they should also show up sooner. (They are already quite hard to see due to the design of the bench icon.)
I think that it is possible to size benches at z18 so that they don’t look silly - https://map.atownsend.org.uk/maps/map/map.html#18/51.48050/-0.21546/H (one of mine) does that.
Frankly, I did not notice any benches after clicking the Z18 link. Only after zooming to 19, panning a bit, and then going back to 18 I saw them there too.
PS: All the hype today is about vector tiles. How should @fjordaan2021 proceed to make osm.org show benches at Z17? Will there be a slider on osm.org that allows to specify the Z level where benches become worth displaying? C.f. Demo of new vector style for OSM
The flippant answer to that question, as always, is “by submitting code changes to the osm.org website that get accepted”.
There is a guideline for new tile layers. The tile layer I linked to above wouldn’t satisfy that because (among other things) it doesn’t have “Global scope and coverage” - it was written to highlight some very England-and-Wales local things that simply don’t occur elsewhere. However, for many years I’ve been banging on that rather than having a single set of annointed layers users having their own layers would be much nicer, and as @Richard mentioned in the other thread that’s much more doable now that a “new style” is just “a .json file on a web server somewhere”
That might be technically doable, but it’s only going to happen if someone sits down to write it. Also there are a whole bunch of other things that a style author would want to consider at the same time - should benches at zoom 17 obscure or be obscured by other things at that zoom level (and in each case by which other things)? How big should they be? If many benches appear together should they be displayed to overlap or should only some benches be shown?
Although you say “a slider on osm.org”, it would be much quicker and easier to get it working somewhere else first (like a web server on your own PC, as mentioned here).
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You could use a special-purpose bench map: https://mapcomplete.org/benches.html?z=15.3&lat=51.4811839&lon=-0.2154467&q=fulham%20cemet#search
I use this one when I’m out-and-about and need a bench.
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