Thanks for the initial feedback. I also had one off list in support of the light green. Please keep them coming.
I will play with a couple more shades this evening and post an update. Rob On Sunday, 6 January 2013, Eugene Alvin Villar <sea...@gmail.com> wrote: > I prefer landuse areas to be darker than the default light gray background color in the Standard rendering. This makes it obvious (especially on LCD screens where lightness/luminance of colors vary depending on the viewing angle) that there is a tagged area there. > > You could make the case that the farmuse area could be lighter than it is now and/or use a different hue than brown, but don't make it as light as the default background color. > > > On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 6:18 AM, Rob Nickerson <rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> (full text and images at https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B6J5ZA1hu93bYm9IWXdlVHM1N1U ) >> >> Recently landuse=farmland (or simply landuse=farm) has been added to fields near me. This has led to a discussion about how the rendering 'looks' with some arguing that it doesn't look that good. I believe that this may be due to the shade of colour used – specifically the farmland 'brown' is not as luminous as the default 'grey' (actually I think it 'lightness' rather than 'luminosity' that matters to the human eye but I got very confused when searching the two). >> >> Consider the image below, showing current rendering: >> >> https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B6J5ZA1hu93bZDBTN2dZZkpDenc >> >> On the left we have farmland tagged. The 'brown' has a Lightness value of 83 percent (luminance of 85%). Compare this to the default canvas 'grey', which has 93 percent Lightness (and 93 percent luminance). >> >> Now consider the following (and please check your screen calibration at http://www.photofriday.com/calibrate.php ). I have taken the farmland 'brown' and raised it's Lightness to the same 93 percent as the default 'grey' (that is, I have left the Hue and Saturation the same): >> >> https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B6J5ZA1hu93bSzk5NDZVMm5GZkE >> >> In this final image, I have adjusted the Hue and Saturation to provide more of a 'green': >> >> https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B6J5ZA1hu93bZXhzdVJMVU44X2M >> >> What are your thoughts? Which do you prefer? Have I gone too 'light' with the change and should some value in-between be used instead? Am I barking up the wrong tree? >> >> Regards, >> >> Rob >> >> Note: To focus discussion I want to avoid the argument that some people see farmland as the default and therefore it does not need to be tagged – it is a legitimate land-use tag and if people want to tag it then let them. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> talk@openstreetmap.org >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >> > >
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