On Thursday 29 August 2013, Kai Krueger wrote: > [...] It really is a rather powerful reward to see your > effort being directly incorporated into the "in production" map > within minutes which can and _is_ viewed by millions of people.
This i can very much agree with. My idea of a separate data verification map was not meant as a purely technical display without any concern for practical usability. I could also phrase it differently: Having two different but both real time updated maps would help communicating to the mapper that the purpose of the data is not just to produce a single map. Seeing how the same features and tags affect the result in the two maps in different ways could make people more aware of this. And for this purpose it would not matter too much in what ways the two map styles differ. > Imho, the solution of cleaning up the low zoom tiles > to "look good" for general use and then increasing or at least > maintaining the detail on z18, z19 (and z20) is perhaps the best > compromise we can achieve. One problem with having a style with strong differences between zoom levels is that the map scale is strongly varying across the map. z18 at the equator is the same as z15 in northern Canada. So when peaks for example get displayed starting with z11 and get labels at z13 this works nicely at low to moderate latitudes but is pointless at high latitudes (once you see the peak you usually see nothing but the peak) meaning the reward of seeing your efforts incorporated into the production map is much less in those areas. Greetings, -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
