At 09:33 AM 12/21/2007, Abigail Brady wrote:
On Dec 21, 2007 5:28 AM, J.D. Schmidt
<<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Is it really necessary to go that finegrained down, in the definition of
the landuse tag ?
Certainly yes.
Do we want a psychedelic multicolored map, or do we want something that
people can stand to look at for prolonged durations ? If the former is
the general consensus, we should already now think about putting a
disclaimer directed at the possible viewers suffering from visually
induced epileptic seizures, at the bottom of the mappage...
Just because it is tagged differently doesn't mean that general
renderers have to use the different colours to display. A custom
airport renderer would *certainly* want to distinguish between air
land and nearby industrial land.
Well put. The OSM database, the tags, represents a brain-dump from
each individual mapper. The more we can can capture in one go, the
better. Emphasis to date has naturally been on the generic renderers
but I'm looking forward to 2008 being the year of the specialists:
tourism, local micromaps, sports, hobbies, organisations,
occupational, scientific, language, culture ... Nick's UK hiker
Freemap and Andy's cycle initiative are only excellent
beginnings. These will be what clearly put clear blue water between
us and the commercial offerings.
Mike
Stockholm
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