The map key is now a HTML table instead of a static PNG image as can be seen on the dev server (click "Map key"):
http://api06.dev.openstreetmap.org/ (Should be on the main site soon) There's lots of room for improvement here, and much easier to make those improvements now that it's not static: * It doesn't correspond very well to the map. E.g. zoom level 2 still shows motorway/trunk roads in the map key even though they're nowhere to be found, if someone would collate a list of what's visible on each zoom level (the possible values are under "mapkey_values" here: http://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/sites/rails_port/app/views/site/_key.html.erb ) then that could be used to improve the map. Maybe such a list could be maintained on the wiki, as long as it's in a format that's reasonably easy to parse I could write a script that generated _key.html.erb periodically from it. * Stuff is missing There are no icons for tertiary roads to name one obvious example, and lots of other stuff is missing. The icons are really easy to make now, here's an example: http://api06.dev.openstreetmap.org/images/mapkey/motorway.png * It's easier to support other renderers now Maybe projects like osmarender would like to have their own map key? If they generate the appropriate icons it should be easy to add them. * Do we want to link to the wiki? If we had a list of how wiki pages relate to the tag names (which should be easy enough to generate) we could link from each row in the map key to the appropriate wiki page, is this a good idea? * Your pet-peeve here _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
