On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 2:56 AM, SomeoneElse <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The "standard" map has an impossible job - trying to be "a nice map", > providing feedmap to mappers that an esoteric thing that they've just > mapped is now present on the map and trying to work for everyone around the > world regardless of country or urban / rural location. It's not going to > "the best representation of map data for Japan" for the same reason that it > can't be "the best representation of map data for England"or anywhere else > - it's compromised by having to work internationally. > > That's not the only option. Current the world gets a compromise map, with heavy UK influence. It's technically possible to divide that, at least along fairly coarse boundaries. Draw dividing lines in the South China Sea, and the tile server could use a different stylesheet for Japan, for example. The Arctic and Antartic could gain a stylesheet that shows everything, for example, as there is less of a clutter issue.
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