On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:30:39AM +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Strange [EMAIL PROTECTED] chaps they must have been, since *not* having a > benevolent > dictator is one of the key differentiation factors between [EMAIL PROTECTED] > and > Mapnik (the other being the - usually - lower turnaround times in [EMAIL > PROTECTED] > but the Mapnik camp is in the process of fixing that I believe).
I was that strange chap. Hi Frederik :-) I was referring to the technical architecture for the most part. Not having someone who kind of oversees development makes it very tricky to get nice code. People contribute a little patch here a little patch there. Then, some woodpeck delivers a perl version that cannot be used as nobody fixes the island bugs :-P, etc... Also on the style front. osma tiles are about three times the size, and every person chooses random colors. We've seen the result when trying to reduce to 256 color palettes. I wasn't suggesting that one guy should be deciding the rules, but rather one guy coordinating the stuff (e,g, "this is how rules that make pub=disused work usually look like in osma....") spaetz _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
