On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 3:52 PM, David Ebling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've noticed a lot of changes to the Mapnik slippymap rendering lately, and > IMHO they are mainly not improvements. > > As the appearance of this map layer has a large impact on the public face of > OSM, I think it's important to have lots of people discuss their views on > this. > > Personally I don't like many of the recent changes because: > > -Everything's in pastel shades. Bold colours are clearer and look better. > -Primary, trunk and secondary roads have no casing on them. This makes road > junctions into a big mess, and you can't see what's what at all. > -New icons are a bit pale. I think the old ones looked better. Although I can > see reasons for making them smaller, I don't think they are as clear. > -The road refs aren't centred properly in their boxes. This looks really > poor. Also, they aren't as clear as the used to be. > -Train stations were better in red than blue, as they stood out better. > Again, I find the new colour too pale. > -Road widths at z=17 seem too wide relative to other zoom levels. > > I appreciate the effort people are putting into trying to make the map look > as good as possible, but I think we need more opinion input and discussion on > what looks best. > > I'm really looking to spark discussion here, rather than be critical, though > unfortunately all of my comments happen to be negative. >
Here are some positives (they're not that hard to find): - Colour scheme is now much more consistent - Icons are all the same size and style, and cover more POI types - POIs are carefully introduced to avoid clutter at lower zoom levels - The new styles emphasise main roads above other features much less -- OSM is about more than mapping main roads and the new styles serve to highlight the detail instead of the traditional dominant features. - Related to above, cycleways, footways, bridle paths are now much clearer relative to other features - Bridges are much clearer Dave _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
