On 2014-05-19 19:41, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote : > On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 2:38 PM, André Pirard > <a.pirard.pa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Did you make that test: asking people which is track or path? Where >> walkers and tractors would go? > Isn't this the job of the map key? Strangely, I was just looking at the key when your message popped up. Did you look too?
Track Track Footway Footway Just like any sensible rendering like the IGN map I've shown etc, the key makes tracks very distinguishable from foot and more important, although I still maintain that tracks should be wider on the OSM map, as in reality. But if someone cares to look carefully, *the key does not correspond to the map at all !!!* *It even looks like the opposite*: smaller red south is the track and longer black north is the path !!! In consequence, my request could also be stated "make the map like the key (and reality)" ;-) But yes I know the usual answer to obviously necessary improvement requests: "wontfix". On 2014-05-19 20:02, SomeoneElse wrote : > The IGN map doesn't differentiate between paths and tracks by colour, > but by an extra-long dash, something that I don't think that osm-carto > uses (but there's no technical reason why it couldn't). The answers to all of that is in the maps and keys I have shown. First, differentiating (only) by color is not explicit unless you know the colors very well. And not very visible when the roads are thin, see map above, that's why IGN's black is fine in that case. Second, both IGN and standard OSM mostly differentiate ways by realistic width, to which they add color if wide. Colors you need not learn -- because you have width to tell importance -- are only useful to follow roads more easily. The net result of all this is that IGN is right: tracks and paths should be black and tracks should be wider that paths. IGN makes long dashes tracks to accentuate the width difference with path dots because these cannot be narrower. OSM might use continuous tracks if long dashes are a problem. Extentfully yours at your request, André.
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