SimonPoole wrote: > And in lots of countries in Europe they are signposted in green. I'm > not quite sure why we are being held ransom to a questionable > decision which was made (not so long ago) by an unrelated third > party. Which interesting enough however doesn't use every > imaginable colour for their road network either > https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/osmaps/#53.00818632749056,-1.4402046835289466
For the eighty gazillionth time: The old OSM style did not use blue, green and red because these were "Ordnance Survey" colours. The old OSM style used blue, green and red because they were the standard British map colours. In particular, other UK cartographers used green for non-primary roads long before OS did (I think OS only switched in the late '90s). If you want to find a commercial prototype for OSM then the AA maps are a little closer, but actually the colours were directly taken from a map I did for the Cotswold Canals Trust, slightly desaturated: https://twitter.com/richardf/status/632185970037657600 I'm not saying that because I have a particular animus towards the new style (I agree that a change was long overdue, and greatly respect the work that the osm-carto team have put into it); I simply want to squash this erroneous idea that the old colours were OS-derived. Incidentally, the old shields (which should have been taken out back and shot a long time ago, and I'm glad they're gone) were not remotely OS either, as some people have excitedly claimed, but were an unintentional echo of British Railways totem signs from the 1950s: http://website.lineone.net/~alan.c.edwards/railsign.html Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/New-Map-Style-feedback-tp5858553p5858637.html Sent from the Developer Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
