On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Ian Dees <ian.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Richard Weait <rich...@weait.com> wrote: >> >> Let's keep this more "brainstormy" and less "discuss-y and debate-y" >> for now, okay? >> >> Trim and add your ideas to the list for your reply. We'll come back >> around for discussion later. ;-) >> >> A few of us were just asking on irc what a US-style tile theme would look >> like? >> >> - distinguish divided highways >> - distinguish toll roads >> - deconflict trunk / tree colors >> - Render shields at lower resolutions >> - De-emphasize railways at lower zooms. >> - Label motorways with both name and number where both are tagged >> - Fewer road colors > > Richard, thanks for starting this conversation! It was good to hear > everyone's ideas. > I'd like to figure out a way to start working collaboratively on getting a > style started. Has anyone tried to collaboratively work on a style file > before? Is there anyone interested in working with on it with me? I was > thinking about firing up a publicly-accessible Tilemill instance on a > representative set of US data and going from there. > Any other, better ideas?
Some of the ideas will be simpler to implement than others. That might mean that those ideas will be simpler to endlessly bikeshed as well. ;-) For example, we could change road colors to address a few of the ideas above. But what should the final color combination be? I predict that there will be endless discussion on that. If one of us comes up with a Super-Contextual-render-a-pub-at-z4-if-it-is-the-only-pub-in-the-hemishpere, then I expect it will get used without question. Also, I think we might want to prioritize some of these and see who has the initiative and knowledge to tackle which ideas. And I'd like to add "- show surface = values in some way, so I'm not surprised by gravel roads." There is a similar thread on talk-ca@ with similar requests from that portion of the community. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
