2012/10/13 Simon Poole <si...@poole.ch>: > My personal view on this is that anybody expecting that simply replacing > the current default displayed style with a different one will change > anything is kidding himself in a big way. The pressure to include > everything and the kitchen sink will not go away and instead just > refocus. It might be good idea to change the misleading labelling of the > default style to make it clear that we don't think the standard for an > OSM data derived map should be totally overloaded, but again that is > just me.
While the inclusion of some stuff (or the integration in lower zoom levels, e.g. leisure=* on nodes in Z15, pubs in Z16) provokes in some areas the feeling that the map is overloaded, there are still missing some traditionally important features (e.g. city gates (or their names) are usually still a main reference in older cities). What would be really nice is a zoom level dependent display based on the density. In a rural area the one church/pub/hotel/camping... might merit to be displayed also on zoom 14 or 15, while in a dense urban area it shouldn't show up before z17/18 for example. The same is also valid for roads to a certain degree (if there aren't any motorways in a country you would want to see the primaries earlier, e.g. in a desert region with sparse population). I know this kind of stuff is quite complicated to do, at least in real time it might be (almost) impossible. But given the amount of brilliant people contributing to OSM, maybe there is a way? cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev