On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 01:30:27PM +0200, Chris-Hein Lunkhusen wrote: > Knut Arne Bjørndal schrieb: > > >>> [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:sac_scale > > >> Ok, but why red? > >> hiking should be yellow, > >> mountain_hiking red > >> alpine_hiking blue. > > > Why should they be that way? > > > > You might be used to this particular cartographic style, but that kind > > of thing tends to be different in different areas. > > No, in this case it is well defined (by the SAC). > If the colors would be different in different areas it would > make no sense to use the colors at all.
SAC is, from what I've gathered, just a regional standard made for the alps that happens to be what the OSM system is _based_on_. That doesn't mean that the cartography that works for them is something we need to copy. -- Knut Arne Bjørndal aka Bob Kåre [email protected] bobk...@irc
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