Re: [OSM-dev] New Map Style feedback

2015-11-02 Thread Jo
I find it strange to see many people arguing that there should be a > similarity between street signs and the colour used on the map. Germany, >> for example, uses blue motorway signs exclusively, >> > > I'm not sure if I read this right, but the Netherlands, Belgium and France > also use blue

Re: [josm-dev] Translation discussions

2015-11-02 Thread Holger Mappt
It's more the admin that wants to set up a new system :) My impression is that most translators are not JOSM developers. That might be one reason why there is nearly no feedback. You need a copy of the source code tree to find the SVN revision a string was committed in. In the commit message

Re: [OSM-dev] New Map Style feedback

2015-11-02 Thread Simon Poole
Am 02.11.2015 um 10:03 schrieb Martin Koppenhoefer: > > > +1, especially tertiary roads now tend to merge into blobs, e.g. here: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/41.85901/12.49464 > > -1 given that you can always find specific situations in which a one size fits all rendering fails, in

Re: [OSM-dev] New Map Style feedback

2015-11-02 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2015-11-02 10:33 GMT+01:00 Simon Poole : > Which > interesting enough however doesn't use every imaginable colour for their > road network either > > https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/osmaps/#53.00818632749056,-1.4402046835289466 > and essentially only differentiates between three

Re: [OSM-dev] New Map Style feedback

2015-11-02 Thread Maarten Deen
On 2015-11-01 18:09, Amaroussi (OpenStreetMap) wrote: Hi all, I have been gathering thoughts from the talk-gb list and my main concern now is how the tertiary roads are shown, especially in countries where people map roads according to quality and hierarchy (and there are more than one). In

Re: [OSM-dev] New Map Style feedback

2015-11-02 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 11/02/2015 09:40 AM, Maarten Deen wrote: > I agree that the abandonging of the blue for motorways is a bad choice. > It is not only a british color, motorways are signalled in blue also in > lots of other countries in europe. I find it strange to see many people arguing that there

Re: [OSM-dev] New Map Style feedback

2015-11-02 Thread Maarten Deen
On 2015-11-02 10:30, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, On 11/02/2015 09:40 AM, Maarten Deen wrote: I agree that the abandonging of the blue for motorways is a bad choice. It is not only a british color, motorways are signalled in blue also in lots of other countries in europe. I find it strange to

Re: [OSM-dev] New Map Style feedback

2015-11-02 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > Am 02.11.2015 um 09:40 schrieb Maarten Deen : > > Teritary roads, being white, are all but unrecognizable. Looking at > motorways, trunk roads or primary roads, I can not tell one from the other, > except when I see two next to eachother. > Furthermore,

Re: [OSM-dev] New Map Style feedback

2015-11-02 Thread Simon Poole
Am 02.11.2015 um 09:40 schrieb Maarten Deen: > > I agree that the abandonging of the blue for motorways is a bad > choice. It is not only a british color, motorways are signalled in > blue also in lots of other countries in europe. And in lots of countries in Europe they are signposted in green.

Re: [OSM-dev] New Map Style feedback

2015-11-02 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2015-11-02 10:51 GMT+01:00 Simon Poole : > -1 given that you can always find specific situations in which a one > size fits all rendering fails, in the previous style there are tons of > while blobs made out of residential class roads, didn't stop anybody > from using the map. >

Re: [OSM-dev] New Map Style feedback

2015-11-02 Thread Amaroussi (OpenStreetMap)
Hi, The only immediate main problem I have is the Tertiary roads due to many countries using it as well, but other than that I still offer to mediate any potential dispute over the road colours, and for that I have suggested that the British/Heritage/Legacy/whatever you like to call it layer

Re: [OSM-dev] New Map Style feedback

2015-11-02 Thread Andy Robinson
+1 Cheers Andy -Original Message- From: Maarten Deen [mailto:md...@xs4all.nl] Sent: 02 November 2015 08:40 To: dev@openstreetmap.org; talk...@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] New Map Style feedback On 2015-11-01 18:09, Amaroussi (OpenStreetMap) wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been

Re: [OSM-dev] Osmosis data corruption on Debian Jessie/Testing

2015-11-02 Thread Brett Henderson
I've added the check. Processing will abort if unicode support is broken, and the error message suggests including a newer version of Xerces. On Mon, 2 Nov 2015 at 17:30 Brett Henderson wrote: > Ah, great I'll take a look this evening and see if I can add a runtime > check. >

Re: [OSM-dev] New Map Style feedback

2015-11-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Richard Fairhurst wrote: > other UK cartographers used green for non-primary roads (I meant "primary A roads", of course, or in OSM parlance "trunk") Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/New-Map-Style-feedback-tp5858553p5858638.html Sent from the Developer

Re: [OSM-dev] New Map Style feedback

2015-11-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
SimonPoole wrote: > And in lots of countries in Europe they are signposted in green. I'm > not quite sure why we are being held ransom to a questionable > decision which was made (not so long ago) by an unrelated third > party. Which interesting enough however doesn't use every > imaginable