The only complaints I see about the standard map are the ones coming from railfans who want to see the abandoned railroads put back. Can we not admit to error? Y'all should try it -- it puts hair on your chest and makes your boobs bigger (those would be gender-specific enhancements. I'll let you figure out which gender wants which). -russ
SomeoneElse writes: > There have been lots of changes to the "standard" style sheet recently > (e.g. [1]). The resulting map looks much nicer (farmland and other > landuse much less glaring, names that really make no sense to be shown > on a general map aren't). > > There have however been some unintended consequences of the changes. A > number of abandoned railways near me were edited from "abandoned" to > "disused"; I'm guessing that it might be because of the recent changes. > Changeset comments along the lines of "changed to X so that it renders" > and "I know we're not supposed to tag for the renderer but what's the > point in mapping a feature which then doesn't appear" are relatively common. > > The question, I suspect is what is the "Standard" style on the OSM > website for? It used to be "for mappers, but a nice rendering; one that > you might actually use as a punter too". Back when Osmarender [3] > existed, that was the "if you want to see everything render, look at the > instead" option. The removal of features (see [2]) that people actually > use means that the Standard style isn't really "for mappers" any more - > it's a nice (very nice, actually) generic map style, but not one that > you can use to make sure that what you've mapped is "technically > correct" (e.g. joined polygons up properly). > > So, where's the replacement for Osmarender? I'm sure that someone, > somewhere, will have created a CartoCSS style file that is much closer > to "show everything" than openstreetmap-carto currently is. Currently > for my own use I'm still using the standard style but at database update > adding back in some of the recent removals (see [4] - it also does some > England and Wales rights-of-way stuff). However, as the "standard" style > becomes "nicer" it's becoming increasingly clear that it's not the best > place to start from. The question is, what is? > > Cheers, > > Andy > > [1] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2014-June/069959.html > > [2] https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/pull/542 > > [3] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmarender > > [4] > https://github.com/SomeoneElseOSM/SomeoneElse-style/blob/master/style.lua > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
