On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 7:42 PM, Richard Welty <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 5/16/15 1:19 PM, Kotya Karapetyan wrote: > > Though I strongly disagree to the idea of "mapping for the renderer", I > agree that there is a huge problem: a lot of data available in OSM database > is effectively lost because the renderers do not show it. > > on the other hand, demanding that the rendering on www.openstreetmap.org > be all things to all people is actually pretty unreasonable. the current > architecture which separates data from style is well considered and in line > with modern best practices; i haven't yet seen an argument that would > persuade me otherwise. > > The idea of mixing style and data was not implied! They are separate and should remain such. I was only complaining about inability to see the data, in whichever usably form. Currently there are two ways I can see some data: switch on editing (bad, because I can screw data up) or use the query tool (bad, because I cannot see the presence of a feature, I need to click the map to find it). Also I didn't mean that www.osm.org should be the place to show all data. It can well be a separate site. what we could use are more people doing projects like opencyclemap and > openfiremap and the like to bring out the data they care about in formats > that they like. > Good idea. Though, for the sake of usability, it would be great to have a single site capable of showing everything. The problem is of course that OSM doesn't restrict tagging in any way, meaning that it's barely possible to create layers for different tags. > > my presentation at SOTM US will include examples of using leaflet, jquery > and overpass to create mashups of OHM and OSM data, and i'll be making > my javascript available on the ohm github repository under a 3 clause BSD > license for anyone who wants to play. > > I will be very much interested in having a look. Cheers, Kotya
_______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
