On Wednesday 28 August 2013, Andy Allan wrote: > > I think that being pretty is not the goal of the default map style > > at all. The primary goal of the default style is to expose as much > > of the OSM data as possible. > > That's widely held opinion, but there's an equally sized opinion that > would heartily disagree.
That's probably to some extent because the main map serves a double purpose: For the user of the map and for the mapper. Both these uses have their own requirements which are not always identical. It always amazes me how much the map style influences the mapping practice, not only by obvious tagging for the renderer but also in the form of subtle priorities. Having two separate styles - a 'data verification' style and a 'presentation style' would help reducing this effect. Another problem is that a consistent and asthetic map design is difficult to achieve with a large number of people working on it together. On the other hand with few people making the design decisions there is inevitably a bias in decisions what is prominently visible and what not (which as said above has a significant influence back on the mapping practice). Greetings, -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
