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Rojnivîska Oleg Shalaev

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Put state ID in small town names

Ji alî Oleg Shalaev ve di 2 December 2011 de bi English hatiye nivîsîn.

I am using netbook + navit + openstreetmaps for GPS-navigation, and I realized that in USA it is sometimes important to put the name of the state together with the town name. For example, I live in Columbia (Missouri), but I could not find my Columbia among tens of others Columbias which exist in other states. Now I've renamed my Columbia into "Columbia MO", so it works better. I propose that also the others would do the same, especially for small towns.

render stop signs etc

Ji alî Oleg Shalaev ve di 22 October 2011 de bi English hatiye nivîsîn.

I have noticed that almost no one puts tag
highway=stop
on the crossroads where every road has a stop sign.
(Such crossroads are very common in the USA.)
However, in the default version of mapnik my stop signs are not rendered.
In order to render them I had to make a few changes to the file
inc/layer-amenity-points.xml.inc
(Those who are interested -- please ask me, I'll explain the changes.)
The fact that the "all-way" stop signs are not rendered prevents many people from including them. (Analogously, I am unhappy that the car-washer which I have put on the map is not rendered too.)
As a result, it is not easy to estimate traveling time using openstreet map, and this is sad. I propose to render stop signs on the map by default.

Cih: Columbia, Columbia Township, Boone County, Missouri, United States