On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Greg Troxel <g...@ir.bbn.com> wrote:
> In my town, there are only a few dirt roads, but knowing if a road is > dirt of paved is important to normal people looking at maps. So I think > the default rendering should show roads > (highway=primary/secondary/tertiary/unclassified/residential/service) > that are marked unpaved. Probably more can be done, but just making the > casings dashed on those would be a large fraction of the benefit without > much downside. Let's not start discussing the cartographic merits of different approaches to showing different features on the main layer - everyone will have their opinions, opinions are just that, and experience shows that nobody has ever asked for their pet interest to be *removed* from the main layer... :-) Perhaps we have a problem with using trac for subjective-enhancement-requests. I know I have the same problem with the opencyclemap rendering suggestions I receive - there's lots there that I'm unlikely to get around to ever, and if I do it's realistically not on my priority list for the next few years. I could WONTFIX them but that doesn't convey the right meaning really. Perhaps the main problem we have is with "one running instance" issues. Most opensource projects work well where, when push comes to shove, you can fork it and add your own improvements and be happy. But with some of our projects - the main map layer and the rails_port, for example - people are only interested in the "one running instance", and that leads to various tensions. For the mapping I encourage as many people as possible to make their own styles, and as many organisations as possible (wikimedia, OSM-DE etc) to run tileservers, and for as many of these to be shown on the main page as possible. For potlatch2 I encourage people to run their own custom instances rather than having the osm.org one do everything. That still doesn't address the issue of whether to WONTFIX the original ticket, but if anyone knows of other map styles that takes the surface key into account then adding the details to that ticket will help relieve the tension about whether or not the main layer happens to have such-and-such a feature added. Cheers, Andy _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
