protomaps / protomaps/basemaps
Major road minzoom
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Description
In many development countries the fastest roads are of type major_road. However, such roads show only up starting from z6 and more. Motorways would usually be shown at z3 to z6 but if a country has no motorways, the map looks very empty at these zoom levels.
Example: Tanzania at z4.5 looks like this:
While Switzerland at z4.5 looks like this:
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No file, test, or entry point is named. Start by locating the road-class minzoom rules and compare rendered coverage for Tanzania and Switzerland around z4.5; done means major roads appear at appropriate low zooms without overloading other regions.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Domain
- design
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100