Should we continue to name the osm.org tile layers by the renderers they use? Is overloading the terms mapnik and osmarender as both a tile layer, style file and rendering library confusing?
The German OSM site refers to the layers as Standard and Alternative, which removes the confusion but is perhaps not as inspirational? Cycle Map and NoName are better as functional descriptions, so we can probably leave them alone. I think we need better names for the current mapnik and osmarender layers on OSM.org. How about naming them after well-mapped, foundational places in OSM? London-style, Berlin-style or Karsruhe-style? Or how about CodeName styles, like Burrowing Badger or Fleeting Glimpse? While these have nothing to do with the two general purpose styles currently on osm.org at least they are not names of related projects that lead to potential parsing problems. Thoughts? _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
