Asztalos Attila wrote: > On 11-Jan-2011 15:51, Richard Mann wrote: >> Which is not to say that knowing which roads are cobbled >> wouldn't be handy sometimes (but I probably think of this >> as something you need to render for yourself (cue ad for >> Maperitive...)) > > I certainly see the merit of the argument "the data is in there, > nobody stops you from using it", but the fact is that even a > lot of the other OSM-data-using map sites use the default > mapnik and osmarender basemaps
The two aren't contradictory. Try playing with Maperitive, or Osmarender, or Mapnik, or Halcyon, or whatever, to have a go at rendering it yourself. Keep playing until you've got something that looks simple, intuitive and neat. When you've got this really great rendering, even if it's just a static file, post it somewhere. If any of the main stylesheet maintainers like it, they could incorporate it into their work. Sometimes great work in OSM just comes out of the blue like that. For me, the single best moment in Potlatch 2 so far was when someone suddenly turned up with an excellent patch to support tagging multiple objects, a problem I'd pretty much given up on as "far too hard". Maybe you might do the same with a rendering idea. If I could give you two particular bits of cartographic advice: - Be selective. Showing everything at every zoom level produces a horrid map. It might often be more effective just to have, say, two styles (the standard one for "paved road", one for "unpaved road"), and relegate really crappy tracks (e.g. tracktype=grade5) to a path style instead. A different style for every surface type would be confusing. - Learn _not_ to use colour. One of the things I really like about Ordnance Survey Landranger maps is their consistent dot/dash scheme for rights of way: . . . . for footpaths, - - - - - for bridleways, -.-.-.-.-.- for byways. All three are the same colour. Colour is a great tool but there's much, much more to map design. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/surface-unpaved-tp5910749p5911552.html Sent from the General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
