I thought the critique was useful for those of us who rarely look at low zooms, other than as a quick way to pan across a few hundred/thousand miles. Yes they are a bit bland; wouldn't hurt to do something about it (wouldn't spend much time on it, but worth a few tweaks). Text overlaps are something that Mapnik is supposed to be good at, so that can probably be fixed. Boundary rendering could certainly be better.
It was also useful to highlight the miscategorisation of roads in the US. If a city centre is an orange blob that's because they've (we've) made too many roads secondary. It's the data that needs fixing, not the rendering. So make them all unclassified and let someone locally pick out the roads that really do have a secondary distribution function. Those turnpike labels should be loc_ref or some such. I think it's a useful learning point - look at the low zooms a bit more often. Write some trac tickets if you think there's a good solution to a rendering problem, but don't know how to do it. Richard _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
