For requests that your pet feature should be rendered in mapnik you are pretty much out of luck. The look and feel of mapnik is controlled by a few designers who (correctely in my opinion) think that the map should look good rather than include every possible bit of information. If you want a map that includes everything no matter how it looks try osmarender. If you don't like that you can set up your own mapnik instance and tweak your stylesheet to include your pet feature. For technical requests you have to convince the sysadmins, who are all volunteers and put in more time than we can resonably expect, that your request is more urgent than the other stuff on their plate. If the request requires code changes you can increase your chances by writing the necessary code and attach the patch file to the trac ticket. ticket; but sometimes the code change is relatively trivial and there are other reasons why the change is not performed. You will usually find a hint about this in trac. Above all: Remember that all the people who work for OpenStreetMap are volunteers. And in every community of volunteers those who put in their time and do things are in charge and those who nag but don't contribute are ignored unless their ideas sound like a fun thing to implement.

For requests that you your pet feature to should be rendered in mapnik you are pretty much out of luck. The look and feel of mapnik is controlled by a few designers who (correctely in my opinion) think that the map should look good rather than include every possible bit of information. If you want a map that includes everything no matter how it looks try osmarender. If you don't like that you can set up your own mapnik instance and tweak your stylesheet to include your pet feature. For technical requests you have to convince the sysadmins, who are all volunteers and put in more time than we can resonably expect, that your request is more urgent than the other stuff on their plate. If the request requires code changes you can increase your chances by writing the necessary code and attach the patch file to the trac ticket. Above all: Remember that all the people who work for OpenStreetMap are volunteers. And in every community of volunteers those who put in their time and do things are in charge and those who nag but don't contribute are ignore ignored unless their ideas sound like a fun thing to implement.

For requests that you pet feature to be rendered in mapnik you are pretty much out of luck. The look and feel of mapnik is controlled by a few designers who (correctely in my opinion) think that the map should look good rather than include every possible bit of information. If you want a map that includes everything no matter how it looks try osmarender. If you don't like that you can set up your own mapnik instance and tweak your stylesheet to include your pet feature. For technical requests you have to convince the sysadmins, who are all volunteers and put in more time than we can resonably expect, that your request is more urgent than the other stuff on their plate. If the request requires code changes you can increase your chances by writing the necessary code and attach the patch file to the trac ticket. Above all: Remember that all the people who work for OpenStreetMap are volunteers. And in every community of volunteers those who put in their time and do things are in charge and those who nag but don't contribute are ignore unless their ideas sound like a fun thing to implement.