2009/9/22 Matt Williams <li...@milliams.com>: > Indeed. I remember this discussion coming up a year or two ago when > talking about the colouring of roads in the default Mapnik renderer. > Some people wanted each country's roads to be rendered in the style > (colouring etc.) that the locals in that country typically display it > (cueing discussions about how to transition at country boundaries). > However, it was argued (and mostly agreed upon) that we don't want > that. If an American wants to create an American-style map with the > whole world coloured their way, then that's fine. Likewise for a > German or British coloured map. Each map rendering should be uniform > across the world and we should avoid having geographically localised > differentiated rendering schemes within one map. This is of course > just general advice and means nothing about what you do with your own > home-grown renderings. The default Mapnik map, however should remain > homogeneous.
If we want to encourage others to be involved those others expect maps to look a certain way, and if we can do it why shouldn't we to encourage more people to participate, a world wide bland map is a turn off. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
