>The standards for acceptance by the casual user have grown enourmously. 
>A year ago, the main maps were re-rendered once a week and that was 
>cool. Now they are updated daily/minutely and somehow people expect that 
>from _every_ map. Weekly updates are now considered lame. And less than 
>full world-wide coverage is lame, too. :-[

Sorry, meant to put this in my last message...

Would most casual users even notice though? Let's take, say, cycle routes 
in southern Hampshire (my local area). The number of mapped cycle routes 
in this area has probably not changed much in the last month, never mind 
week. I very much doubt the casual user would even notice if the map 
hasn't been re-rendered for a month. Most users, I'm sure, would accept 
the infeasibility of minutely or hourly updates for people running their 
own mapping servers at their own expense on a not-for-profit basis. 

BTW on the original thread: +1 for the cycle map stylesheet being 
open-source.

Nick

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