Add rendering for amenity=police area

[matthijsmelissen]

Areas mapped as amenity=police should be rendered.

Example

See also https://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/3622.

[polarbearing]

A render proposal had been made in #771 - see below.

@mkoniecz commented: "I am unsure about police, currently [hashing] is used for rather inaccessible areas"

@polarbearing commented: "So if we go for a single colour, which should it be? Amenity-yellow, like hospitals and schools? (talking about amenities, nursing_home and social_facility are not rendered...). That would be a rather quick fix."

More ideas are welcome.

[polarbearing]

Is there any opinion forming if we should go for solid color, hatching as above, or a different pattern?

[matkoniecz]

Solid? But it may be hard to find something that will be sufficiently different.

[polarbearing]

if solid: Maybe in the reddish direction of military, but with a good portion of gray, so it stands out only slightly from the typically surrounding residential.

[matthijsmelissen]

I would go for some generic colour that is not necessarily unique, as police already is rendered with an icon. Maybe we could use that colour for all civic landuses.

In my opinion police landuse is not 'special' enough to warrant its own colour.

[dieterdreist]

Il giorno 17/set/2014, alle ore 15:48, math1985 [email protected] ha scritto:

Maybe we could use that colour for all civic landuses.

please note that not all police forces are civic, eg in Italy part of them (Carabinieri) is military

In my opinion police landuse is not 'special' enough to warrant its own colour.

+1=

[polarbearing]

What about the exactly the same solid colour as we have for military=barracks, then?
Example: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/52.55239/13.25889
Kind of same red for all (mostly) armed services.

For comparison, close by is a landuse=military hatching over barracks:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/52.55700/13.31468
and landuse=military hatching over some airfield variety:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/52.56402/13.29624

[dieterdreist]

2014-10-02 19:18 GMT+02:00 polarbearing [email protected]:

What about the exactly the same solid colour as we have for
military=barracks, then?
Example: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/52.55239/13.25889
Kind of same red for all (mostly) armed services.

-1
IMHO we should have a distinction between military and other stuff, just as
many constitutions make this distinction. Police is typically seperate from
military, and police forces also aren't necessarily armed. There are also
private guards that are armed, but should not be easily confusable with the
police, so the "(mostly) armed" rule doesn't make much sense to me.

[polarbearing]

@dieterdreist - you don't want a separate colour, but not the same as military (despite your Carabinieri example in your first comment). Which colour (scheme) would you propose?

@math1985 - what civic landuses do you have in mind, and which colour could it be?

In the end we might come back to the grey hatching as proposed above...

[dieterdreist]

2014-10-03 13:17 GMT+02:00 polarbearing [email protected]:

@dieterdreist https://github.com/dieterdreist - you don't want a
separate colour, but not the same as military (despite your Carabinieri
example in your first comment). Which colour (scheme) would you propose?

https://github.com/math1985

actually I'd not colour them at all, or use e.g. yellow for public services
(same as schools, universities), could also be used for fire fighters,
forestal police, customs, hospitals, etc.
I'd expect the carabinieri to render like military (because they are
military) but not the other police forces. FWIW, we are already tagging the
Carabinieri with both, landuse=military and amenity=police to map this
detail.

[matkoniecz]

I think that it is impossible to continue increasing number of different landcovers.

Also number of different outlines is limited.

I propose to close this as this area is not critically important to render.

[matthijsmelissen]

I would still prefer to reserve a colour for 'other' types of amenity - I think it'd be helpful to visually group buildings within an area, be it schools, police buildings or hospitals, together.

[kocio-pl]

+1

[polarbearing]

I think it'd be helpful to visually group buildings within an area

Outline -> #1624

Also number of different outlines is limited.

We don't need so many different outlines, maybe about 4 categories.

[matkoniecz]

I would still prefer to reserve a colour for 'other' types of amenity - I think it'd be helpful to visually group buildings within an area, be it schools, police buildings or hospitals, together.

Maybe just use this pale yellow colour - it is anyway used now for educational areas and hospitals. But assuming that it would be done - what is the threshold? I think that rendering areas of individual shops or restaurant (within building or outside) is certainly too much and rendering hospital/police/etc area may make sense.

Overall I would prefer to stop rendering hospital/educational areas rather than adding more features rendered as areas.

[polarbearing]

Overall I would prefer to stop rendering hospital/educational areas

Please don't before we have another method to visualise their boundaries. We should start working on mock-ups for boundaries for the cases in #1624.