2013/3/24 Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org>: > OSM is a "help yourself" project. Street names are important in Europe, > that's why Europeans helped themselves by making a database that records, > and a map that shows, street names. People in countries where crossroads > names are very important are invited to help themselves and improve OSM to > the point where it becomes easy to record and display crossroads names. > > (OSM is quite popular in Japan so I'm surprised to hear from you that OSM > should be "extremely hard to read" there. The Japanese OSM community does > possess considerable technical skills so I would have assumed that if > crossroads names are as important as you say, they would have developed > something to implement them in the mean time.)
But there were times when it was easier for the Europeans to "help themselves", i.e propose a patch for one of the 2 main open map styles (osmarender and mapnik) and have hope that it would be integrated (actually in Osmarender you could simply change whatever you felt was reasonable). AFAIK almost all recently closed mapnik tickets were marked either invalid, won't fix, worksforme or duplicate, but I couldn't find hardly anything that actually got integrated. The only 2 tickets I found that were opened since Jan 2012 and got fixed for mapnik are these two: https://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/4226 https://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/4523 (doesn't appear to have been a style problem) While I agree that mapnik is (at least for European areas) a reasonably mature style there are still lots of smaller issues that might be addressed (and maybe are not because of issues with mapnik on windows or key not available in db or maybe not so much available time that the style sheet developers can dedicate). Anyway, for whatever reason, in the past few years there were very few modifications to what the style displays and how (while at the same time tagging evolved a lot). cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
