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At the current time gas pipelines are rendered with the gray filling, and oil - with the yellow one. I found this is perplexing. Usually gas pipelines and markers are coloured in yellow, and on ther ...

cartography
Anakin86 opened May 4, 2020
19 comments

Now used 2172 times on ways. Related to rendering man_made=pipeline and tunnel=flooded

water
flacombe opened Apr 18, 2018
22 comments

... - similarly how highways in tunnels are shown (semi-transparent), or how underground pipelines shown (that is, not shown at all). Actual behavior Rendered as a culvert, glaring white line in blue ...

water
SinusPi opened May 12, 2021
6 comments

... "db" to address: Name or service not known osm2pgsql version 0.96.0 (64 bit id space) Using lua based tag processing pipeline with script openstreetmap-carto.lua Using projection SRS 3857 (Spherical ...

bug docker
ThomasG77 opened Sep 25, 2019
5 comments
line/polygon defaults
pszhuchkov opened Apr 23, 2022
6 comments

... , rendering them accurately is a functional requirement, not an aesthetic one. Please consider implementing functionality similar to what the shield renderer provides (if not necessarily the same pipeline). Thank you!

roads
1ec5 opened Apr 26, 2014
48 comments

... others. Well, maybe not with the lack of GroupSymbolizer, but I think I could duplicate its function in the pipeline that generates graphics, and then use prerendered groups in Mapnik. It would probably ...

roads
matthijsmelissen opened Jun 2, 2014
93 comments

... street infrastructure. I d understand arguments to outsource rendering of pipeline, powerlines, lots of natural features to dedicated maps (if they distort a general purpose map), but the basic modes of ...

new features roads
cm8 opened Feb 6, 2021
19 comments
stephan2012 opened Sep 14, 2021
7 comments
gravitystorm:master stephan2012:feature/local-files

... the lower and higher levels), and on the highest zoom levels that should be POIs (readable icon shapes and names when possible), highways shapes, trees, flower beds, overground pipelines and maybe even ...

general question
gravitystorm opened Jul 3, 2015
115 comments