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anvaka / city-roads

Visualization of all roads within any city
https://anvaka.github.io/city-roads/
MIT License
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Includes paths as well as roads - was this the intention? #3

Open timhutton opened 4 years ago

timhutton commented 4 years ago

e.g. this bit of Cambridge (UK): image v. image

anvaka commented 4 years ago

This is the query that I send to OSM: https://github.com/anvaka/city-roads/blob/4a887c8543f4fc051e58ed75307192291a0a8ffe/src/components/FindPlace.vue#L262-L270 - I'm not filtering anything out, but I'm not an expert in this area. Do you think the website would be better if the paths are filtered out?

timhutton commented 4 years ago

Entirely up to you. I was just surprised to see them when the project is described as a visualization of roads.

sbarrett08 commented 4 years ago

Yes i found the same when i was looking around my area. If not filtering out footpaths, changing them to be a different type of line to distinguish roads from footpaths such as ------- for paths maybe?

msurguy commented 4 years ago

Having options to filter out various types of roads might also enable lean SVG export :)

Devetec commented 4 years ago

Please, get rid of footpaths, or change them to something else. Really!

ccope commented 4 years ago

Yeah I'm seeing footpaths in parks in San Francisco as well, which makes the city appear to be more completely covered in roads than it actually is.

Devetec commented 4 years ago

yep

pax commented 4 years ago

it would be awesome if some features would have a slightly different thickness (boulevards/highways) – I imagine this would make cities even more recognisable

sergn-n commented 4 years ago

You may wish to add an option a user would specify to select a class of highway=* values as described in OSM wiki

patzi commented 4 years ago

see also: #20 I would think that if you filter out all non car roads/ways it could lead to empty spaces i.e. in huge parks.

pax commented 4 years ago

middle ground could be to dim/de-emphasize paths / smaller roads (by size or color)

noobyogi0010 commented 4 years ago

Hey @anvaka! I would like to work on adding this path filtering feature as it is really essential to separate highway roads and footpaths or other paths from each other. Can you please help me with how to start contributing to this? Thanks!!

tg44 commented 4 years ago

Can't we make a checkbox-list component for the options, and make it selectable for the users? Is there sb working on this? I think I will pick this up if I will have some free time.