Carlos Cámara wrote: > Willing to read your points of view on that matter.
There is a whole lot I could say on this (writing "Eurocentric" in a discussion about casinos seems really weird, and I'm not sure Native Americans would thank you for it) but ultimately it's a little academic at the moment. At present we are prisoners of the technology we use. That is raster tiles and they simply don't scale to offering multiple views of the world. So unless you believe there is one true map (there isn't) then this issue is always going to come up. Moving to vector tiles will bring OSM's true potential front and centre: a million different views of the one dataset.[1] The barrier for creating your own map view of the world moves from a seriously difficult toolchain and an arcane styling language, to a simple "bring your own style" with a friendly WYSIWYG editor[2]. It's not even infeasible that, one day, individual OSM users could save their own stylesheets somewhere on osm.org, fork and share them with others. The possibilities are endless, and endlessly delightful. That is where to focus our energies - not on mithering around the dying technology of raster tiles. Richard [1] assuming a comprehensive selection of tags is encoded into the tiles at large scale, but that's entirely plausible [2] https://github.com/maputnik/editor -- Sent from: http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/General-Discussion-f5171242.html _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk