2015-10-31 21:57 GMT+00:00 jonathan <[email protected]>: > I don't like it.
I like it :) Much more legible, less messy, than it was. > It very simple, the colours should match the road sign colours: Blue, Green, > Red! Not obvious to me why that would be a requirement, but I guess it's fine as a starting point for a UK-only map style... (...which this isn't!) > Anything else is just form over function. > > Stop playing with aesthetics and concentrate on functionality. Well, the designers have described their motivation as legibility. https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2015/10/30/openstreetmap-org-map-changing/ Legibility for a rendered map is _indeed_ functionality. Re Amaroussi's first question, I guess the other thread (the "usable map service" thread) has acted as the lighting-rod so far? Best Dan > On 31/10/2015 21:37, Amaroussi (OpenStreetMap) wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> For some reason, the barrage of complaints I was expecting on this >> channel, regarding the switch from blue/green/red to rose/red/orange seems >> to be quiet today. I wonder who is unhappy with the change? >> >> I would back blue/green/red being an alternative theme on OSM to calm >> things down, even though rose/red/orange is a pretty fresh change. >> >> — Amaroussi >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-GB mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
