Hi, > Who decides what colours are used on the main maps? I.e. who actually > decided that motorways should be blue, and trunks should be green, how > railways are rendered etc.? > > Say I'd like to see railways rendered differently in the [EMAIL PROTECTED] > maps, where > should I ask? Is there some "formal" process like for accepting new > tags where general agreement is formed?
The [EMAIL PROTECTED] maps are computed based on stylesheets that are in SVN, so anybody can change them. It usually takes a while until a change is visible everywhere because (1) not all tiles are rendered anew after a style change, and (2) not all renderers update their styles every day. We don't have a formal process to decide nor are there written rules. The unwritten rules are probably roughly: 1. Don't break the styles 2. If you add something that affects only a small number of tiles, say because you started to tag historic battle sites and want a little marker there at the highest zoom level, just do it - if people are unhappy, they can still change it and re-render 3. If you want to change something big, then discuss it on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list. It's no use pushing through a change that would lead to half of the renderers simply refusing to update ;-) 4. Big changes like a different colour for highways are a bit difficult since very many tiles have to be rendered, and the map will be a patchwork of old and new tiles for quite a while. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
