On 07/08/15 10:28, Mark Goodge wrote: > Just an (anec)data point here. One of OSM's strongest selling points > among the "ordinary" (non-map-geek) web community in the UK at the > moment is the fact that, unlike Google, it uses the "correct" colours > for roads. Google's own change to the orange-and-grey colour scheme > generated huge opposition from many UK-based users. So the current OSM > colour scheme is itself doing a very good job of raising awareness of OSM. > > If there are plans to move OSM to an "international" colour scheme > globally as well, then that advantage will be lost unless there is an > easy option to use a UK-style overlay. So yes, I do think that a UK > colour scheme should be a very high priority.
I'd second that, and PERSONALLY all I'm looking for at this stage is keeping the existing style sheet for UK use. I've got a nice new machine ready to at least have a go at keeping my own copy live. Adding a new rendering stack is secondary and does not need to be implemented to achieve the first goal. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
