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Post subject: Mechanics vs cosmetics: two sides of the same coin?
I was recently reading over an old Gamasutra article entitled
How to Prototype a Game in Under 7 Days
, and one part in particular jumped out at me:
Heavy Theming Will Not Salvage Bad Design (or "You Can't Polish a Turd")
We found that game players are smarter than you think, and they can tell when you're pulling a fast one on them. If the gameplay is horrible, there is no recovery - all the art, music, and product tie-ins in the world won't make it a great game. Like taking a stale gameplay mechanic and slapping the latest 3D animated movie characters on it, nobody will be fooled.
Mr. Gray:
With Spin to Win, the gameplay' was to rotate your mouse to spin multiple circles literally disc spinning. To hide the fact that it wasn't fun, I heavily themed the game with a '60s
art style and music. But no matter how much I polished the game, it still wouldn't shine. Despite all the extra love, it quickly became one of the site's most hated games.
But Overall Aesthetic Matters! Apply a Healthy Spread of Art, Sound, and Music
This is actually counter to one of our original hypotheses. We didn't think art or sound would make any difference at all, but we were wrong! Playing with a well-polished game actually feels better in your hands than playing the exact same code but with careless art and poor sound. It is important to make the following distinction though polishing the aesthetic (as in the above section) will still not salvage bad design, but it does have the power to make a good game even more playable. This does not mean that you need fancy graphics or surround sound. It does mean that you can benefit from pulling everything together into a tight cohesive compositional package. Remember, even crappy can be a tight winning aesthetic if you frame it the right way.
This very much reminds me of discussions I've had in the past about the value of what I term "cosmetic fluff" - aesthetic wrapping to make the game mechanics look pretty. Some mud developers have argued in the past that you shouldn't waste time on code that doesn't have a direct effect on the game, yet the benefits of a well-written world are very clear, and I've found the same is true in other cases as well; a cool feature will usually be overlooked or unappreciated if it doesn't
have cool cosmetics. Or
as I've phrased it
in the past, "Mechanics may be the meat of the game, but cool cosmetics provide the flavour. Even the most well designed of games can feel lifeless and barren without the appropriate cosmetic touches."
In fact the only case I can think of where cosmetics
matter are for features that aren't exposed to the players. But for features that are a part of the gameplay, mechanics and cosmetics seem to be intrinsically linked. Even "pure" cosmetics such as help files, dynamic descriptions, weather messages, etc, tend to rely on (or can be enhanced by) mechanics - for example given the choice between weather that's a purely cosmetic messages, and weather that's tied into terrain and special effects, I would definitely favour the latter. Even something like ANSI colour, which is just a cosmetic effect, can be used much more effectively when tied to mechanics such as wilderness maps, user-configurable colours, client-based auto-detection (including recognition of extended colour support), etc.
I think there are also many parallels between this and the Diku distinction between "coders" (who usually focus on mechanics) and "builders" (who usually focus on cosmetics). It's possible just to have a heavily customised mud with a stock world, or a stock codebase with a completely original world, but I would argue that having both a heavily customised mud
a completely original world would be a much greater recipe for success (assuming that both the mud and the world were improvements over stock).
Can anyone think of a gameplay feature that's exposed to players that
be enhanced through cosmetics? Or of a cosmetic effect that
be improved through mechanics? Are they indeed two sides of the same coin?
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I can't think of an example, but this does remind me of a comment I read on another forum recently that went something like, 'the content
the gameplay', which tends to run counter to what many folks go on about when they talk about gameplay.
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Saturday, January 5, 2013
Rockets vs Cavs Game #34 2nd Half Game Thread
224 comments:
- AnonymousJanuary 5, 2013 at 6:01 PM
What happened to all the posters?ReplyDelete
Blocking foul? Really? JLin is always held up like that!ReplyDelete
Great D by JLin. Where's the help D. It would have been an easy block!ReplyDelete
stop fkn shooting it hardenReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 5, 2013 at 6:06 PM
Great duel with Kyrie and Lin going now.ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousJanuary 5, 2013 at 6:07 PM
Kylie with 5 TO and Lin with 4 TO. One TO is because Lin did a Bruce Lee kick while going up for a shot.Delete
I don't think @Stu was referring to the TO duel :pDelete
Anyone know how many 3's Lin hit tonight?Delete
Nice drive and dish by Harden. There we go Parsons!ReplyDeleteReplies
Was about time Parsons hits a 3 (1 of 4 so far)Delete
I just woke up, and when I saw the stat sheet I was surprised that Lin has more pts than Harden... hahaha... I think we have a good game here :)ReplyDelete
JLin "like a blanket" on Irving.ReplyDelete
Wow how was that a foul...Fking refs.ReplyDelete
Smith is a boss! Gotta look out for his fouls tho.ReplyDelete
Lol Kyrie scoring in Harden's face...He's getting hot, time for timeout to cool him off.ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousJanuary 5, 2013 at 6:14 PM
What did you guys think what Kevin McHale conversation with Sampson is about?ReplyDelete
Kevin McHale: Damn Greg Smith is playing great but can't shoot a FT.
Sampson: Kyrie Irving scored on Jeremy Lin. Time to bring in Tony Douglas.
Kevin McHale: Oh crap, I forgot to take him out and give him his rest. We need him for the 4th quarter.
I wish we had a Bruce Bowen type of player on the team that can compensate for Harden's shitty defenseReplyDelete
Wow harden is cold...1/9? Or is Gee doing a number on him?ReplyDelete
Lin only can score when harden is on the bench.ReplyDeleteReplies
Asik keeps getting boxed out...Sigh new center plz...ReplyDelete
Wow Rox is the suck in freethrows today...ReplyDeleteReplies
Damn - Smith shot 1 of 5 or so...Delete
Mchale talked to Sampson! We cannot let lin out shine harden this game. I rather lose it. Sampson: ok! We gonna bench him if we see him make one mistake.ReplyDelete
Come on guys. Lets not lose to a 8 win team.ReplyDelete
PatPat making his own play with Asik. NiceReplyDelete
Lin in for Harden please!ReplyDelete
TD the scoring spark off the bench!ReplyDelete
Wow... I can't believe that the rockets benched both Lin and Harden at the same time... either one of them is usually on the court... ok, let's see how these guys play...ReplyDelete
Anyone seen Lin? We need his O and D!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 5, 2013 at 6:27 PM
Ok, time to bring in Lin to close. He's rested now.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 5, 2013 at 6:29 PM
Lin will come back in around 7:30ReplyDelete
TD gets faked too easily...They need Lin to defend Kyrie...But props to bench for holding down the fort so far.ReplyDeleteReplies
Yeah but hes moves so flashy when hes getting faked so that it actually looks good :)Delete
Lin to the rescue!ReplyDelete
Lol wow refs just not on Rox side today...I saw charging but its foul on Delfino?ReplyDelete
If J.Lin scores more than J.Harden and the Rockets win this game... does this mean I can finally read articles with Jeremy Lin's name on it and giving him credit for the win?? Hahaha :DReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousJanuary 5, 2013 at 6:41 PM
hey, we think the same. It's always harden, harden, harden I see in NBA top story headline. BTW, it's the same every team though. Always the one with high points get the title. I just hope there's one game I see lin. Haven't see it in a while. do we sound like a Harden hater??hm....to some people maybe we are.Delete
Nice cut and shot inside!ReplyDelete
Omg, here goes heo iso Harden. Arghh. Just pass Lin the dam ball and he'll give it back dammit.ReplyDelete
Hohhhh... Harden robs Lin of an assist by being blocked...ReplyDeleteReplies
Lin should have just kept it himself for the easy lay-in.Delete
Wow flurry of exchanges there...Great back and forth got ruined by Livingston but quick transition to Harden again!ReplyDelete
just got in, checked the box score. Seems like harden is having a bad game offensively but still effective in drawing foul which is okay. And Lin having a nice overall game. Looks like this back to back game fatigue is no longer an issue. In a way that's the benefit of hard schedule early on against SAS and OKC other lesser teams seems easy even at back to back and on the road.ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousJanuary 5, 2013 at 6:37 PM
sometimes, it's weird. Rockets can defeat teams like knicks, Chicago, but lost game to heat and spur. Whereas, knicks defeat spur, and Chicago was able to defeat heat.Delete
Actually they've been fighting for this one hard since 1Q...8TOs in like a few minutes, scary close game.Delete
Wow, JLin with the nice D forcing the TO on Kyrie, Harden gets rejected, Cavaliers rejected on the other end, and Harden comes back with the and-1.ReplyDelete
And another good contest on Kyrie's mid-range.
Lol Jones can flop or whatReplyDelete
HAHAHAH! Harden hitting that one... no way.ReplyDeleteReplies
LMAO HARDEN PAWNING ON THE CLOCK!ReplyDelete
Jeremy should have 7-8 assists. And 2-3 steals (knocked ball loose, but someone else picked it up after a scrum).ReplyDelete
But still a great all-around game by J-Lin. Irving got some buckets on Douglas to make his stats look better than they are.
This is the first game I remember Jeremy making bad "home run" passes, though.Replies
Yeah I think the league is on to the home run pass. He's going to have to tone it down to about 2 per game. It's got to be a surprise.Delete
- AnonymousJanuary 5, 2013 at 6:43 PM
You have to take the good with the bad. He is pushing the tempo and it just happens the man got there in time. You can't be 100 % all the time. Even the best QB can't have that rating.Delete
Wow Harden bad TO...Delfino with a +1. Awesome.ReplyDeleteReplies
Which one? The TO or the and 1 :)Delete
Let's go Delfino! Agressive mode!! HahahaReplyDelete
Hardens Moto: "Gotta score more than Lin - gotta score more than Lin - gotta score more than Lin - brumm brummm"ReplyDeleteReplies
80 million dollar man with breathing room 3!ReplyDelete
Ok that trey was clutch. Mad props to Harden.ReplyDelete
He's not doing well today, is he injured or just tired?
From CF by a guy with 4000 posts:ReplyDelete
"Excellent D by Lin there.
But of course, no one's gonna remember that and point that out "Replies
I remember it... so as Harden's shitty defense... but Harden's last 3 is clutch!Delete
I remember some claim to be lin fan here said his d is terrible, while the pther said his d is good. Who should I believe? the self-claiming lin fan or the other one?Delete
At worst Jlin D is mediocre because he over helps on D but i think its because of the lack of info on opposing players. With more scouting reports he'll know when not to leave a guy in the 3point area.Delete
Interesting lineup to close:ReplyDelete
- Starting backcourt
- Bench frontcourt
No!!! Reach in?ReplyDelete
Irving makes 80 million dollars based on that foulReplyDelete
Lol fking refs...Weak ass pushing foul. Kyrie you suck.ReplyDelete
Foul? Lmao on the refs. That's a disgrace to the game.ReplyDelete
Lin and 1 MUAHAHAHAHAHAReplyDelete
HELL YEAH! trying to back me down? I'm going to take you to the rack!ReplyDelete
Told u! Coach need harden to get his stats .ReplyDelete
Kyrie trying to back down JLin. You got nothing on our boy!ReplyDelete
And JLin coming right back at you with an and-1!
JLIN THE WARRIOR!!!ReplyDelete
the refs are calling it thin tonight... wtf is going on??ReplyDelete
bad decision making there. They funneled Jeremy straight into trap.ReplyDelete
EPIC AND-ONE...ReplyDelete
...but a bad TO on the next one.
Too unselfish!
Wow, Irving is a competitor.ReplyDelete
Jeremy Lin drives to the hoop +1... YEAHH!!!! That's my boy JLin!!! HahahahaReplyDelete
Sausage man knocking it downReplyDelete
Lol Kyrie saving Cavs atm...ReplyDelete
Wow that was a bs foul.ReplyDelete
BS fouls on Jeremy...ReplyDelete
...Irving getting Kobe-type calls.
Sigh this is annoying.ReplyDelete
that set play was awful: 3 shooters for iso harden, iso harden doesnt take drive but just passes it to TD for a shot where there only 1 other HOU in the paint.ReplyDelete
Just give to Jeremy on PnR please if you gonna toss something up like that!
I don't know about that call... that's way too thin..ReplyDelete
Referees keeping the Cavs in the game. Irving getting all kinds of calls. Ridiculous!ReplyDelete
That patterson miss was big, would be 6 pts lead even with Kyries 1 FT. But 3pts with 69secs left.ReplyDelete
I hate close games. KILL THEM DAMN IT.
Irving's no doubt competing but all those fouls called vs JLin were all questionable.ReplyDelete
I can understand if Irving is attacking the rim.ReplyDelete
But he's getting fouls on step-back jumpers! Utter BS.
That was a good fake by Irving, and Lin left his feet and then Irving leaned in and got the contact. Not a total BS call. Lin is playing well though but needs to make good decisions down the stretch.ReplyDeleteReplies
Lin needs to stop jumping for shot fakes, needs to stay on his feet for D. A jumpshot is very difficult to block, best thing to do is just contest it.Delete
ISO Harden once again... what a shitty play...ReplyDelete
Jeremy looks off pnr for iso harden. iso harden with euro step!ReplyDelete
Offensive foul on Irving! YEAH!!!ReplyDelete
Lin giving it up for the team!!!!!ReplyDelete
oh please irving you got enough calls.ReplyDelete
Clear foul by Irving. No flop.ReplyDeleteReplies
shut kyrie. you couple of stupid fouls called on lin. its your turn.ReplyDelete
Kyrie being too aggressive there. Great D by JLin!ReplyDelete
Lin with the game sealing D on Irving!ReplyDeleteReplies
These are the myriad of "non-stat" contributions Jeremy makes EVERY game.Delete
That's why he's capable of being elite...once he gets a reliable jumper!
- AnonymousJanuary 5, 2013 at 6:57 PM
but the "Stat" contributions is what most people notice and will take credits for.Delete
Stats will come in time...probably next season. He needs one more healthy offseason to fix that jumper and learn even more half-court playmaking moves.Delete
Let it be known JLin's D won this game...Hahahaha I laugh in ur face Kyrie!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 5, 2013 at 6:53 PM
At least the refs are consistent. Lin got the SAME exact call got on him in the Spurs game.ReplyDelete
Omg and they called that a flop? Fucking Irving's arm was clearly pushing Lin.ReplyDelete
Nice D by Lin. Offensive foul and then Gangnam Style plays. Lol!!ReplyDelete
lol great flop if that's what you want to call it.ReplyDelete
Anyhow, good game.ReplyDelete
ALL HAIL TO JEREMY LIN!!!! HAHAHA... THIS KID HAS HEART!! FANTASTIC OFFENSE AND FANTASTIC DEFENSE!!! BRAVO! BRAVO!!ReplyDeleteReplies
Absolutely. If somebody is gonna bicker about Lins performance tonight Im gonna go crazy :)Delete
harden gets his stats one way or another. he's been clutch in this fourth quarter with some monstrous 3's.ReplyDelete
Very good game by Lin. Some clutch shooting by Harden.ReplyDelete
Harden gets to PAD his stats with these past 4 garbage time FTs...ReplyDelete
LIN was the MVP of the game, no doubt. Harden and Patterson were co-#2 stars.
At least, Cleveland announcers were impressed by Lin, I think.ReplyDelete
I have absolutely no problems with Harden shooting freethrows, that boy is just money.ReplyDelete
"THEY HAVE LIN, WHAT AM I GOING TO DO NOW MAN?!? GAME OVER MAN GAME OVER!!!" Screams Kyrie...
BS Kyrie Irving spoiled #1 pick still asking for flop while you already have 5 BS calls against LinReplyDeleteReplies
Lin took in charge of the offense just the short time.ReplyDelete
Jeremy Lin 2, Kyrie Irving 0ReplyDelete
yeah right #1 pickReplies
Still waiting for John Wall and Kyrie Irving(both PG #1 pick) to win against Lin. That day will probably never come lolDelete
damn I want Lin to win against Lillard too so bad. Problem is L.A. & BatumDelete
Irving's a good scoring guard. I'll give him props for that. Problem is, JLin is a good scoring guard, play maker, and defensive specialist.Delete
- AnonymousJanuary 5, 2013 at 7:00 PM
good game til the end!!!ReplyDelete
Too bad after this game, it's Harden as a closer headlines all over again, none would remember that without Jlin's defense, the win would not have been possible :(ReplyDelete
Oh well... at least in my book, Jlin killed this game!! (stitches and exhaustion and all)Replies
Hahaha... Who cares what writers would say... THE TRUTH will come out no matter how hard they try to hide it :)Delete
- AnonymousJanuary 5, 2013 at 7:08 PM
agree. It is how it is. I will take it. It's the same everywhere on every team. We jlin fans will remember how good he is.Delete
The true Lin fans don't need headlines to see Lin's greatness. The kid got game. Soon or later haters will just have to admit that because it's the truth.Delete
They wont. Watch all the game highlights on youtube (by gerald lin). There is one nutjob commentator who wont stop insulting Lin...Delete
- AnonymousJanuary 5, 2013 at 7:00 PM
And the winner of the TO battle goes to...drum roll please...Kyrie Irving with 8 TO's and 30 points. He has -7 in leading his team to a loss.ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousJanuary 5, 2013 at 7:04 PM
Jeremy has +6, 4 TO's and a WIN. :)Delete
Just wait for the folks who always come here to fake a game summery/analysis to bash Lin - claiming no PG turns the ball over like he does and that he will never be a superstar :)Delete
Smith came in STRONG today. Covered Asik's ass...Hahahahahaha I love it awesome win go Lin go Rockets!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 5, 2013 at 7:02 PM
20pts, not bad, despite he play with a injured head. Harden, again, with the highest points on the team, not bad too.ReplyDeleteReplies
JLin, good game. :)Delete
- AnonymousJanuary 5, 2013 at 7:09 PM
yes! surprise to see he plays this strong with his stitching head.Delete
Considering how much he plays d, shares the ball with his teammates, thats simply awesome :)Delete
i agree willy.Delete
- AnonymousJanuary 5, 2013 at 7:05 PM
Harden turned it on to full ball hog mode with 6 minutes left in the 4th quarter. Can't blame him since he is the leading Rockets scorer and it is also hard to defend him vs Lin. Asik did not show up this game and thus Greg Smith was used more. He lost the rebound battle to Greg Smith. TD started to chuck up balls when he knew he was going to get pulled by the coaches soon for Lin. Pat Pat played well tonight and Morris didn't.ReplyDelete
whew. the rockets now can have 2 full days of rest. well deserved.ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousJanuary 5, 2013 at 7:08 PM
And of course Sampson was devastated that they did not bench Lin in the 4th quarter. He would have done it if he was still coaching the Rockets. Trust me guys when I say it, McHale is having more confidence in Lin and thus is letting him play through his mistakes. He would have been easily pulled for throwing those two football type passes.ReplyDeleteReplies
I don't like sampson... he's a BS Coach...Delete
- AnonymousJanuary 5, 2013 at 7:15 PM
Mchale definitely start to see more light in lin. Lin will win his heart ultimately. Mchale won't get any humble pg like lin in the league. Lin will always give him respect even how harsh he is to lin.Delete
- AnonymousJanuary 5, 2013 at 7:17 PM
Its called tough love sista. He is critcal of Lin because he wants Lin to do well and learn from his mistakes. He doesn't want Lin to get a bloated head by keep on complimenting him. Winning cures all ailments.Delete
- AnonymousJanuary 5, 2013 at 7:18 PM
lol..tough love...maybe...Delete
Great job, Jeremy! Clutch as usual. Hope he's feeling OK. I admire his grit.ReplyDelete
HOUSTON ROCKETS CURRENT STANDINGReplyDelete
20-14 (4 Game Winning Streak)
Next Game ---> LA Lakers @ Houston
Looks like a playoffs team to me :)Replies
Lakers game will be fun to watch!Delete
i haven't seen lin vs nash yet. that will be fun to watch.Delete
No doubt this team can reach the playoff but for The Rockets to have any chance pass the first round of the playoff, they must get that 4th or 5th seed and hoping to get the Grizz for their 1st round matchupDelete
Yeah - I hope it will be one of these games where Lin totally freaks out - doesnt care about anyone and plays ego-mode... Lin does that sometimes (38 against Kobe).Delete
I also want to see JLin vs Paul and JLin vs Steph Curry.Delete
- AnonymousJanuary 5, 2013 at 7:17 PM
also first game play against his former coach D antoni? last game, D antoni is still out I remember.Delete
@lydia not the first timeDelete
Yeah - last time he wasnt coaching.Delete
- AnonymousJanuary 5, 2013 at 7:22 PM
Rikki,yes, not first game,but first game D antoni in charge. Right, Willy. I guess so.Delete
I think getting the 4th seed will give them a good chance of getting to the second round because of home court advantage. The Rockets are much better at home.Delete
rockets vs lakersDelete
rockets vs clippers (jan.15)
rockets vs warriors (feb.5)
rockets vs blazers (feb.9)
these will be fun games to watch :)
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We need a video showing Lins clutch flop - ehmm - cluch D move against Irving
Yeah, what a tight game, the Rockets looked like the better team ... but the Cavs got a lot of rebounds and 2nd chance points. The Rockets big men got dominated in the paint even when Anderson Varajao isn't playing.ReplyDelete
G. Smith and Patterson needs to take boxing out seriously.


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After 4 years of failure, I was lucky enough to win an entry into the 2014 Maratona dles Dolomites. It's easily the most beautiful and professionally run event I have ever entered (I rode it in 2009 too).
The course is 138 kilometres, 7 main climbs including a loop of the Sella Ronda, and the very tough Passo Giau (all passes labeled on map at bottom). In total, roughly 4000 metres of ascent.
I rode with my good friends: "The Boys from St. Etienne" – Philippe and Xavier.
Breakfast at 4:30am, we left for the start at 5:30am before the roads closed. The race started at 6:30am. But we were at the very back of more than 10,000 cyclists. We crossed the start line at roughly 7:00 am.
The course is absolutely beautiful, and the weather was as good as could be expected. The first climb to Passo Campolongo was very congested, but things eased up for the long and beautiful climb up to Passo Pordoi.
I'd be lying if I claimed I knew where all these photos were exactly located.
After Passo Sella the route was a little bit easier to Passo Gardena. I felt reasonably good and enjoyed the pro photographers:
I was happy to finish the descent from Passo Gardena to Corvara. We'd circled the Sella Ronda, I'd been eating and drinking like a pig, and the day was going well.
We had to cycle up Passo Campolongo again, but with a less congested road, it wasn't too bad. Next a long, long stretch before the feared Passo Giau.
This is a brilliantly run event in every way. For example, some fool knocked Philippe's bike over at a drink station and bent his deraileur hanger thing (technical talk). He was having problems changing gears when we passed one of many repair stations. There was perhaps the best mechanic I have ever seen, who using a myriad of tools, fixed Philippe's bike in 4 minutes. Grazie mille!
Passo Giau next. 10 kms at 9.3% with some steep ramps. Lots of tired legs but we made good progress.
Once at the summit, we took a long, long food (cheese!) and drink break – we were tired but success was in sight. We weren't particularly fast up the long but not too steep Passo Falzarego / Passo Valparola climb, but we kept moving.
It started raining here – quite hard at times, but fortunately it wasn't that cold. No worries.
After descending Passo Valparola, the only difficulty was the new addition to the course: Il Muro del Gatto (the cat wall). Just a fun, short 400 metre very, very steep stretch. My main goal was not to put feet to ground. 🙂
We certainly weren't the fastest. And it certainly wasn't easy for us. But all-in-all it was a remarkably fun day on one of the truly great Alpine routes.
60 seconds after the finish:
Finally, a few more photos of me taken by the pro photographers:
While the roads are closed to traffic, the route is certainly full of cyclists. It can be tricky at times, but this course is as beautiful as it gets, and very professionally organised.
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|圖徵 : Zh-hant:建築物
|用來描述很多不同的建築物,包括房屋, 工廠和廢墟。
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建築物的外圍線條可以是單一建築物或是一整區 (Block)的建築物,可描繪單一不相連的建築物,或是一整排連棟房屋,或是其他複雜的建築物體。比較好的方式是畫一系列的有共同的點和線的線條來表示個別建築物體。
建築物可以標為 building=yes,或是直接描述建築物的種類,例如 building=house, building=hut, building=garage, building=school. 比較完整的案例選項見 building=* 和 have a look at what is actually used。
建築物的地址也可以加上去。地址可以直接加在建築物的外圍線上,或是更常見的方式是加在主要出入口處,那個出入口處用一個點標示 entrance=yes 或是 entrance=*。
有眾多不同出入口複合用途的大型公共建築物,建築物出入口也可以標示為 access=*。一棟建築物的出入口可以連結到一行人走道 (標示為highway=footway 和 highway=steps 等等)。如果有不同的出入口,個別出入口也可用不同的地址標示。
Mentionable usage
There are structures tagged as buildings which are missing a foundation or are even moveable. For example many mappers are using the key building=* to describe moveable objects and buildings for example building=static_caravan, building=houseboat or trailers. While houseboats (often self propelled), ships (for example museum or theatre ships) or docks may be moved once, there are also building=floating_homes which are built on floating logs and do net get moved. Some mappers are additionally using floating=yes to indicate this property.
Differing from the ideal of mapping the outline of a building on the ground, many objects with building=* include parts of buildings (for example constructed on piers) which are only covering areas. building=roof and building=bridge even describe buildings which have, except its piers, no outline on the ground. The same holds for underground buildings like building=cellar or those building types which are tagged with location=underground.
Don't tag for the renderer
- 更多此主題的細節、見 Tagging for the renderer。
Some mappers are trying to modify OSM data to be rendered (e. g. by Mapnik) in a way to fit their wishes by creatively reinterpreting some existing tags.
Please map all attributes as close to the reality as possible with the available data. Make use of the descriptions for the tags at the refering wikipage. Use the existing values by its definition at the wiki and choose the best fitting pair of key and value. If there is no fitting tag and no more generic tag, you may find some uncommented already used tags at taginfo. If all of this does not suffice, you may better create a new tagging and document it at the wiki.
Here are some negative examples in context to buildings.
- tagging of non existing amenity=* to emphasize the building at the rendered picture
- modify/omit tagging due to dissatisfaction (e.g. cafe/restaurant)
- building parts as distinct objects to structure the rendered picture
- deleting/moving objects to obtain a (nicer) placement of the icon
- tagging statues, bridge piers, gravestones, sockets, ships as buildings to make them visible on the map. This can be counterproductive even for 3D-Mapping.
Such manipulations damage not only the OSM, but also they are needless, because their effect is usually limited to a single renderer, which will be probably modified soon.
If there are substantial rendering errors, please contact the developers of the renderers directly.
How to map
When tracing from aerial imagery try to estimate the place where the building position on the ground which may be offset from the roof-line as shown by the imagery on the far side given that images are normally taken from an angle.
If the building has an interior courtyard the use a Multipolygon relation to ensure that the courtyard is not rendered as part of the building.
- entrance=yes (if you know where the entrance is)
- addr:street=*
- addr:housenumber=*
- addr:postcode=*
- addr:city=*
- addr:country=*
- (more values and detailed information here: Key:addr)
- ITO Map has a layer to help track building address details
- OSM Inspector is also able to help in checking these tags
in JOSM
- As a lot of buildings are rectangular, you can draw a rough rectangle, and then orthogonalize it in JOSM with the hotkey Q. Pressing Q on a selection sets all the angles in the selection to be 90°. Be sure you're using a projection like Mercator, otherwise if you use something like WGS84, then objects will be distorted when rendered. (Please be aware that not all buildings are orthogonal and sometimes it is better to keep an odd looking polygon instead of making a curved shape rectangular.)
- JOSM/Plugins/BuildingsTools makes mapping of buildings a lot more convenient (hotkey B). This works best for buildings with four nodes.
- JOSM/Plugins/Terracer is for quickly mapping a row of terraced houses.
in Potlatch
In Potlatch, you can add several buildings quickly especially in residential areas by tracing the building with one hand with the mouse and then with the other hand pressing the 'R' key to add the properties of the previously selected building. Add the source, building tag and whatever other tag you want on the first building then copy it to the other buildings.
Some ways to get the outline of the building
- Aerial photographs (e.g. Bing). There are also some tips and tricks for roof modelling.
- Observations from street level, drawing a sketch, or even taking measurements
- Walking around the edge of the building taking a GPS trace. Good enough for big buildings (e.g. a stadium) but walls normally reflect the GPS signal, causing the trace to be offset a significant distance away from the building.
- French Cadastre
See also
- shop=* to indicate that the building is used as a specific shop
- amenity=* to describe what the building is used for, for example: school, theatre, bank, ...
- entrance=* to mark the entrances to the building
- man_made=courtyard proposed tag for courtyards
- architect=* to indicate the architect of a building
- building:condition=* for the condition of the building
- ruins=* - for ruins of buildings
- abandoned=* - for a building which has been abandoned by its owner and is no longer maintained
- start_date=* - the year of construction
Use the Simple 3D buildings that is already implemented in some tools and offers backwards compability with previous approaches.
- Proposed features/Building - original proposal, which mentions various other ideas
- Proposed features/Building attributes - attributes proposal, cancelled
- Relations/Proposed/Buildings - (to group buildings and other related things together)
Sutton Coldfield rendered in the 'standard' style ([1]) as it was back in 2008 (buildings have since been made less bright coloured)
Sutton Coldfield rendered by osmarender (the old tiles@home map style)


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Joe Biden's Confusing Occupy Wall Street Interview
Joe Biden has finally chimed in on Occupy Wall Street! Mostly by confusing it with a Van Jones-led conference in D.C. and then not knowing that Van Jones, the former White House "green jobs czar," used to work for him. Perhaps it's time for a little "What's Going On With The Left" clarification session.
Biden was doing a radio interview for WFLA when the hosts asked him about "the Van Jones organization of the Occupy Wall Street group which is supposedly counter to the Tea Party." Okay, so the confusion is built in! Then things get worse (via Raw Story):
"I really don't know about the Van Jones group, except what I read in the press," Biden said. "I don't disrespect the tea party. I think the tea party and the Van Jones folks are different halves of the same concern."
Biden continued: "You have on one end Van Jones's guys, whoever he is, talking about Wall Street."
Suddenly, both Harris and his co-host Tedd Webb laughed and reminded Biden that Jones was the "Green czar" in the administration.
"Oh, is that… alright," Biden replied.
So, he never knew that Van Jones worked for his administration, which he did, until he was forced to resign following Glenn Beck's discovery that he signed some 9/11 Truther petition many years ago. But Van Jones isn't the organizer behind Occupy Wall Street. He's the organizer of Rebuild the Dream, a progressive movement that's co-sponsoring this week's three-day "Take Back the American Dream" conference in Washington D.C. along with the Campaign for America's Future. Occupy Wall Street is merely a hot topic of conversation at the Take Back the American Dream conference. So that's What's Going On With The Left! Quiz in the morning.


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This week's "True Blood" gave us a major reveal, gratuitous nudity and even a vampire turning. But for all the "action" that went down last night, I'm left feeling lukewarm.
Gone are the days when I gasped at least once per episode. Instead, I find myself wondering whether the writers have completely checked out on the Bon Temps universe or are just floundering to find new storylines for its residents.
Meet Barlow
This week we -- along with Sookie, Jason and FFG (for those just tuning in, that's F---ing Faerie Grandfather) -- learn that Ben is Warlow.
The episode opens with Sookie and Ben dragging an unconscious Jason to the couch. Sookie leaves the room to call 911, and Ben takes the opportunity to bare the fangs we didn't know he had, bite his arm and let his vampire blood drip into Jason's mouth.
FFG, not yet aware of any of this, is pissed that Ben stayed behind to help Sookie tend to Jason rather than chasing vampires with him. He reminds Ben that their mission is to protect Sookie, not her hapless human brother. Ben apologizes to Grandpa Niall and leaves to get a hotel room, but not before exchanging a meaningful gaze with Sookie.
Jason, unknowingly riding his vampire blood high, shows Sookie how much better he feels by doing shirtless pull-ups on a doorframe. Sookie isn't suspicious of Jason's behavior -- until she finds a drop of blood on the floor by the couch and suddenly understands everything.
Am I the only one who doesn't buy how quickly she figures out that Ben is Warlow and fed Jason vampire blood?
Sookie goes over to Ben's hotel and invites him to dinner under the guise of thanking him for helping save Jason. Afterward, she shops for groceries as she leaves Jason a voicemail telling him to skedaddle so she and her dinner date can have the house to themselves.
Jason can't answer his phone because he's sleeping. Remember how after you drink a vampire's blood, you sometimes fantasize about that vampire? Jason finds himself dreaming that he's shaving Ben ("Do it like you do it to yourself," Ben tells Jason). He wakes up pretty freaked, and as one does in such a situation, turns to his grandfather for advice. But before sharing his Ben fantasies with his grandpa, Jason confirms that he's "a straight type of faerie." Oh, Jason.
FFG searches through Jason's memories and the two realize (as implausibly quickly as Sookie did) that Ben must be Warlow. FFG has never heard of a faerie being turned, but clearly that's the only explanation. The two men sneak into Barlow's hotel room as Barlow is taking a shower. Except the shower curtain is pulled back to reveal ... nothing. Barlow is fast, and a little nudity doesn't stop him from taking control of the situation. He shocks FFG with faerie light, knocking him to the ground, and glamours Jason.
And then we're yet again on the bridge where Sookie's parents were killed. Barlow pulls FFG out of the trunk of a car, gives him some blood to stir him awake, and then throws him to the ground and proceeds to explain that yep, he's Warlow. He was turned thousands of years ago, and the light and dark within him have been fighting each other ever since. Barlow spared FFG's life back when he killed his parents because the faerie good in him wouldn't let him kill a child, and he'll spare him again now -- by sending FFG through the portal to wherever Barlow emerged from in the premiere.
Meanwhile, Sookie puts on her prettiest lace dress and prepares some silver-laced-fried-chicken. Barlow arrives with flowers and wine -- all the trappings of a lovely evening, but somehow I doubt this date will end well.
They sit down to eat (Barlow is somehow unaffected by the silver in his supper) and Sookie flat-out asks what it is about her that "Ben" wants. Barlow tells her that everyone wants to be understood, and that he knew from the moment Sookie found him by the side of the road that she understood him.
Sookie appears to be convinced, and as "At Last" plays on the record player, she and Barlow move to the couch where things start to get hot and heavy ... but then Sookie activates her magic ball of light, and tells him to get off of her unless he's fixing to die. And she calls him Warlow.
A new vampire is born
After tracing Eric's cell phone, Governor Burrell and his agents storm Ginger's house. Daddy wants his daughter back, and orders the agents to light Bon Temps up "like a Christmas tree" until Willa is returned.
Pam and Eric find Tara emerging from the sewer sans Willa. Tara doesn't want to tell them where Willa is, but as usual Eric (violently) gets his way. Pam sort of but not really scolds Eric for putting his hands on Tara, and then Eric leaves to fetch Willa.
Pam and Tara have a fight about Willa and Tara stomps off, leaving Pam all by her lonesome when the governor's men show up and shoot her down. She'll be carted off to the vampire camp. Is Bill's prophecy that they'll all be trapped and burned already beginning to come true?
Eric finds Willa sitting alone on a merry-go-round. She tells him that she waited because she knew he'd come for her. She's on his side, and wants to know why Eric wouldn't let her taste his blood back in Ginger's coffin. Doesn't she deserve to, after offering to help?
Actually, Eric thinks she deserves far more -- he is going turn her. To that end, he digs a big hole in the ground. As Eric unbuttons his shirt, Willa tells him she's a virgin, at which point Eric marvels out loud: "So much courage, so little experience." He promises Willa that being turned won't hurt, not the way he does it. "True Blood" may be getting stale, but Eric Northman is still the sexiest vampire on television.
Willa wakes up downright giddy, but her delight over her newfound immortality is dampened when Eric tells her that she must go back to her father's house and teach him that vampires are not to be hunted. She doesn't want to go, but Eric trots out that trusty "as your maker, I command you" card. Unfortunately, Willa's homecoming doesn't go as Eric had hoped.
Before Willa returns home, we meet Bon Temps' newest couple: Governor Burrell and Sarah Newlin. The former Mrs. Reverend Newlin is trying to distract Burrell from his troubles with a makeout session. They're interrupted by guards announcing that Willa is home ... and had to be invited in.
The governor is perplexed until a bloody Willa enters the room. She tells her father that if he loves her at all, he stop slaughtering vampires. He seems to be considering it, but then Willa smells the blood from a wound on her daddy's hand and just can't help herself. Sarah Newlin shoots Willa with one of those UV-light-guns, and tells Governor Burrell that Willa must be sent away to the vampire torture/experimentation camp. Eric is not going to be pleased.
Faeries just wanna have fun
Andy's faerie preteens are reading Terry's mind, much to his chagrin. Papa Andy comes in and tells the girls its bedtime. He tucks them into bed and turns out the lights. A few minutes later, though, the girls starting talking about how "it's happening again." The lights switch back on and we see that the girls are now in their late teens. After arguing over who has the prettiest new boobs, they decide to take their new bodies out to play. After all, they "might be 30" by morning!
Bill and Jessica are lurking outside as the girls sneak off in Andy's cop car. They're a little confused about the girls' age, but whatever -- faerie blood is faerie blood. Jessica insists that she be the one to kidnap the faeries, noting that while Bill would never think to harm Andy's brood, Billith might. She heads into the convenience store and convinces the girls that it would be "super fun" to come party at her house.
Once at the Compton manor, one of the faeries hits on Bill. He uses the opportunity to attach a device to her wrist that collects a sample of her blood. She's okay with this, because anything in the name of foreplay.
Sadly, Bill isn't interested in her new boobs. Instead, he strolls into the lab he's somehow rapidly assembled for Professor Takahashi and hands him the blood sample, ordering him to synthesize the faerie blood just as he once did with human blood.
Takahashi examines the blood, and tells Bill that he's never seen anything like it. Problem is, outside of its host the faerie blood loses all magical properties and turns back to plain old human blood. Bummer!
The faeries, finding Bill and his blood-taking wrist device creepy, decide it's time to leave the Compton manor. Jess scrambles to persuade them not to go, and in her haste to figure out what to do, grabs one.
Weekend Watch
Up close, the honey smell of faerie blood is too much for Jess to handle. She loses control and feeds on all of the faeries. Bill hears screaming, and finds Jess crying. She begs him to tell her that the faeries aren't dead.
The rest of it
In a brief but important scene near the start of the episode, FFG catches up with Nora and demands to know how Eric's sister knows about Warlow. Nora tells FFG what she figured out (in Episode 2) about Lilith and that error in the vampire bible.
The vampire bible doesn't read that the people led Lilith to the sun, but that the progeny led Lilith to the sun. Warlow is Lilith's progeny, and therefore it is Warlow who must kill Lilith. It's unclear how this will play out, but I'm guessing it means that Sookie can't just off Barlow in her living room.
At the werewolf HQ, the werewolves are picking over the remains of the Vampire Unity Society and notice that Nicole is unaccounted for. But before Alcide can get too concerned, Martha runs out and yells that Emma is gone. As in weeks past, I couldn't care less.
My disinterest in the wolf pack is matched only by my growing indifference to all things Sam Merlotte. He hooks up with Nicole this week, surprising no one. I did love little Emma's pink cowboy boots, but I'm not sure that justifies keeping any of these characters around.
Maybe it's fatigue from the long holiday weekend, but even all of the shirtless-ness (Jason! Eric! Sookie!) couldn't make this week's episode compelling. We were given plenty of new information, but zero new reasons to feel connected to these characters. As we near the halfway mark, I'm afraid that Season 6 is shaping up to be a bigger disappointment than that time the writers tried to make were-panthers happen.


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Your iPad Could Be Your TV
Wade Roush at Xconomy.com has an interesting post that takes a while to rev up, but once it does, arrives here:
I'm laying a bet, right here and now, that the days of the television as we know it—a standalone appliance with a built-in tuner, a goofy software interface, and an incomprehensible remote control—are numbered. Five or 10 years from now, if you have a TV in your house at all, it will simply be a dumb terminal, one of several devices that can "catch" the content that you "throw" to it from your main information hub. And that hub will be your tablet.
I have spent much time on this blog lamenting how frustrating and confusing TV is today. I hesitate even to use the word "TV," because I'm not even entirely certain what that refers to anymore. Am I talking about the cable package I have, but hardly ever use, from Verizon? Am I talking about the Netflix app on my PS3 that I use much more often? Am I talking about the Hulu.com? HBO GO? Am I talking about TiVo, or Roku, or Apple TV, or Google TV, or any of the other so-called "smart TVs" with their 10-foot interfaces, or… are you even listening anymore?
I often end these laments with a hopeful mention of the famous Jobsian declaration that he had "finally cracked it!" ("It" being TV.)
What I didn't realize, but what Wade Roush has illustrated for me, is that not only did Steve Jobs probably crack the problem of TV, but that he already developed and sold the device that may be the key to our problems. Like Poe's purloined letter hiding in plain sight, the solution to our current TV UI/UX morass may be right under our noses, and may be the most exciting reason to get behind a product I've personally been dragging my feet on adopting: the iPad.
Before returning to Roush's argument, I want to describe two recent transformations in the way I've been accessing content. Over the past few weeks, I've been wanting to listen to a lot more music, and I've been wanting to access a lot more of HBO's back catalogue of dramas (I missed out on The Sopranos craze in a timely fashion). Much to my surprise, my iPhone, rather than my MacBook, has increasingly become the nexus of both these experiences. When I come home, I plug my iPhone into a sound system and stream Spotify music. And when I want to watch a back episode of Deadwood, I sometimes find myself accessing the HBO Go app on my iPhone, too, which for some reason has been less glitchy than running the site on my (rather old) laptop. I even began to investigate how I could stream HBO Go content from my iPhone to my television, but it appears HBO blocks this functionality for the time being, even if I were to buy an Apple TV.
The point is, when I want hassle-free access to a world of content, I'm finding myself turning to apps on my mobile device. This drift came about naturally, not because anyone told me to do so. And reading Roush's post, I agree with him when he says, "I think moving TV content to the tablet is the best way out of the user-interface hell that is the modern connected TV—and I think it's the path that Steve Jobs had in mind when he hinted cryptically to biographer Walter Isaacson that he had 'finally cracked' the problem of how to make televisions more Apple-like."
Roush points us to a post by Mark Sigal, disputing the idea that Jobs's Big Idea for TV was a piece of hardware. The thing is, we don't really need innovation in TV hardware (and certainly not if it'll cost us $8,000). We need innovation in TV software; we need the whole ecosystem of audiovisual content to be streamlined and simplified and made more readily accessible. Spotify did this for my music, where Rhapsody failed me; it created a single, elegant application that was easy to navigate and that grouped together content I already owned with content I could stream, all in a familiar, iTunes-like fashion. What is needed now is a Spotify for television, with the iPad (or even, potentially, iPhone) as its hub, and with AirPlay enabling streaming to a "dumb terminal" of a screen. If Apple's truly ahead of the curve on this one, then the iTV won't be a piece of hardware at all, but rather a piece of software: television's killer app.
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