2009/4/29 Richard Fairhurst <rich...@systemed.net>: > > Nick Black wrote: >> To your point about integrating other people's services, I think its >> clear. Whatever the best service available is should be used. > > "Best" is in the eye of the beholder. > > Subject to minimum quality standards (no long outages, results not > completely bogus) and a common API, we should let the user choose between > available services. I could in theory code a routing service that was better > than CM's for validating the type of mapping I tend to do (i.e. long cycle > routes) but less useful for housing estates. > > It's exactly the same as with the map layers. I think (awaits flames) that > Steve Chilton's Mapnik layer is the best OSM cartography there is at > present, and if you apply commonly-accepted cartographic standards than > that's probably not just opinion, it's objective truth.
Doesn't have contour lines though does it? I know what the best layer _really_ is :-) Dave _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
