On Wed, 2015-03-11 at 20:14 -0700, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: > On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 7:21 PM, johnw <jo...@mac.com> wrote: > In certain countries (such as the one I am in) the thick black > line has a single purpose - private train lines. The zebra > striped lines -carto uses are for national lines only (JR > lines in Japan), and the thick black lines are for private > railways (such as most of the Tokyo subway system) that run > across the country. [...]
> -1 for thread hijacking, but > +1 on the thought. There ARE regional differences in rendering > preferences. -1, I like the idea of OSM maps being consistent on a worldwide basis. Roads in blue, green, red, orange, yellow, and white mean the same thing no matter what country we're in. Same with railroads for the most part. At most I would support one of the alternate styles being region-specific stylesheets, but definitely not at the expense of the style we have now that's consistent across the entire planet. -- Shawn K. Quinn <skqu...@rushpost.com> _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
