I miss the white lines on blurry Landsat background. So simple and elegant. Can
someone set that up and make it an option in the layer switcher? ;)
* Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron
>________________________________
> From: Richard Fairhurst <rich...@systemed.net>
>To: talk@openstreetmap.org
>Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2013 9:39 AM
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls
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>
>Andrew Errington wrote:
>> Also, my proposal for including
>> a "markerlink" has not been taken up.
>
>Yet. Rome wasn't built in a day.
>
>> I also didn't see any consultation on this topic. Just another
>> fait accompli.
>
>Hey Andrew, I noticed you did some edits to the map the other day. That's
>fine, but you didn't give everyone a chance to comment on them before doing
>them. I think some of the tagging you used could have been improved, and
>your geometry is a bit off. Also, that road was arguably a highway=track,
>surface=asphalt, but you tagged it as highway=service. Please make sure to
>carry out full consultation before doing any edits. You just did them as a
>fait accompli and I think that's wrong.
>
>...Exactly.
>
>These things are discussed, and discussed openly. It's just that the forum
>for discussion is not the bearpit that is talk@ (with good reason); that,
>pretty obviously, we don't wait to get the approval of every single OSM user
>before deploying; that we sometimes deploy in-progress work rather than
>waiting for every little detail to be fixed; and that we sometimes make
>changes that some people will never like.
>
>Because otherwise, the site would never change at all, and we'd still be on
>the Java applet (pre-Potlatch 1) with some barely legible white lines on a
>blurry Landsat background. At the same time as you're posting sceptically on
>this list, SteveC is moaning on Twitter about it being too little, too late
>(bit odd that a founding father spends so much time publicly slagging off
>"his" project, but there you go, everyone loves him for it). You simply
>can't keep everyone happy.
>
>OSM works because we trust that talented people will do amazing things. OSM
>trusts you, as a talented mapper, to make good edits in your area. OSM
>trusts the talented developers and sysadmins to do good things with the site
>and the hardware. Some things will happen which are not 100% to your liking.
>Learn to deal with it.
>
>Because the alternative is that, every time you make an edit, Andrew, you
>get 30 complaining mails saying "well I'd have done it differently, you
>should have asked me first". The effect is that you give up editing. Believe
>me: I have some pretty obvious first-hand experience of this.
>
>cheers
>Richard
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