Ah, happy new years everyone! :D
On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Fernando Trebien < fernando.treb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Great! I'll surely count on your expertise, Matthijs. I think the guys at > the design list can help us arrive at a good visual style for this. We can > start with our 2 cents (malenki's suggestions seem like a great starting > point). > > I agree with Richard, here on the tagging list we should not be concerned > with rendering specifics. However, for me it's been great in understanding > which factors seem more important to most people across different cultures, > in order to establish the major difference at the right spot. A rendering > decision requires an insight in tag semantics, and in this case also > involves a tagging culture change (promoting a specific tag) that may even > spread all the way down to editors such as JOSM and iD. > > If nobody disagrees, I'll consider that the tracktype tag is the best > choice for this decision, and that any value besides grade1 deserves some > marking meaning it's not in what most people consider "good condition". > > I believe an effective way to get people to use tracktype that way is, > beyond a wiki update, also an update on JOSM's presets (in this case, > simply adding a tracktype field in several presets). Experient mappers > (most of those using JOSM) will quickly get the message and then pass it > along to new users. > > > On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 11:01 PM, Matthijs Melissen < > i...@matthijsmelissen.nl> wrote: > >> On 31 December 2013 22:27, Fernando Trebien <fernando.treb...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > I was thinking of a colour change (like the Humanitarian style does), >> but a >> > dashed outline would be just fine for me. After deciding which tags >> should >> > be used, I think I'd leave the aesthetic decision to people in the >> "design" >> > list or (perhaps better) to Carto's developers (I don't know who made >> > Carto's style but I've heard a professional cartographer was hired for >> > that). >> >> The Carto style is maintained by Andy Allan aka gravitystorm: >> https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto. The Carto design >> is basically a direct copy of the older Mapnik XML design, of which I >> don't know who wrote it. Apart from Andy, many people, including me, >> have contributed to the Carto style. I have worked on the rendering of >> roads, so if you like, I can help you in writing up the change. Just >> keep in mind I don't know anything about cartography or design either, >> I'm just good at typing out other peoples' ideas in a machine-readable >> form :). >> >> -- Matthijs >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> > > > > -- > Fernando Trebien > +55 (51) 9962-5409 > > "The speed of computer chips doubles every 18 months." (Moore's law) > "The speed of software halves every 18 months." (Gates' law) > -- Fernando Trebien +55 (51) 9962-5409 "The speed of computer chips doubles every 18 months." (Moore's law) "The speed of software halves every 18 months." (Gates' law)
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