On Mon Jul 13 19:07:35 2015 GMT+0100, Dave F. wrote: > Curious: Why don't you think blue for motorways is acceptable? > Blue is the correct colour for motorways, I was referring to the coming carto change where they will become orange.
Phil (trigpoint ) > > On 13/07/2015 13:13, Philip Barnes wrote: > > On Mon, 2015-07-13 at 10:25 +0100, SK53 wrote: > >> Bridges and other significant remaining infrastructure of railways > >> tagged as railway=abandoned ceased to be rendered on the Standard > >> rendering some time ago. There was a degree of dissension with this > >> decision: > >> https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/pull/542. > >> > >> Certainly I recall a few grumps to that effect on the osm-gb IRC > >> channel: not least because of the potential value of such routes for > >> walkers & cyclists. > >> > >> > > I was certainly one of those, disused railways are important and very > > visible features in rural parts of the UK. I suspect other countries > > didn't suffer the stupidity of a Dr Beeching in the way we did. > > > > At the time I recall most of the arguments being about railways > > appearing through housing estates and the solution seemed to be to hide > > them rather than leave them and allow local mappers to correct the > > tagging. If its gone and not visible then it should be tagged historic, > > rather than abandoned. > > > > I think this, and blue motorways, is a good argument for why we need a > > UK render of the map. > > > > Phil (trigpoint) > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Talk-GB mailing list > > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > http://www.avast.com > > -- Sent from my Jolla _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
