On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Alex Barth <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Oct 12, 2012, at 1:14 PM, Michal Migurski <[email protected]> wrote: > >> * Create a new map style intended to be the default face of OSM, but leave >> the current OSM.orgMapnik style as-is. It works beautifully as an editor's >> basemap due to the dense inclusion of all data. Keep it, but add a new one >> that's for non-editors to look at. > > I wonder how good the current Mapnik style is for editors. > > Mapping in Latin America I'm for instance noticing more and more how people > tag major connecting roads `highway=track` because they're unpaved instead of > using an appropriate tag such as `highway=tertiary` and specifying > `surface=unpaved`. Tagging for the renderer of course: the problem is that > the Mapnik style completely ignores `surface=unpaved` making a significant > dirt road really not look how it should on the map. I guess it's clear that > there's an issue w/ the style not being maintained right now and it's unclear > how to contribute to it, but based on stuff like the unpaved road example I'm > starting to think that the Mapnik style does not only need a refresh > esthetics wise but it being unmaintained complicates good mapping.
I think the current Mapnik style should eventually be replaced by a CartoCSS style (hosted on GitHub) that is accessible to more editors/cartographers (think TileMill). It should maintain the focus of showing everything under the sun, even if it is a bit cluttered. There's lots of great general purpose styles (MapBox Streets, Open MapQuest) and more focused ones out there, the main OSM.org style should be a showcase of the underlying data. -Josh _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
