Hi, > Well, there was a discussion on IRC today among some of the [EMAIL PROTECTED] > chaps > along the lines of "what we really need is a benevolent dictator, like > the Mapnik stylesheet has".
Strange [EMAIL PROTECTED] chaps they must have been, since *not* having a benevolent dictator is one of the key differentiation factors between [EMAIL PROTECTED] and Mapnik (the other being the - usually - lower turnaround times in [EMAIL PROTECTED] but the Mapnik camp is in the process of fixing that I believe). [EMAIL PROTECTED] is our map offering for mappers, Mapnik is our map offering for the rest of the world. This means that [EMAIL PROTECTED] will always tend to look less pretty but be closer to the data. But if you start mapping lampposts in your city and you don't have an EC2 server at hand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is your chance to put them on a slippy map and show them to others - which has served the project well IMHO. So if you were to set up a style commission for [EMAIL PROTECTED], it would lose one of its main reasons for existing. Bye Frederik _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
