On 2014-06-23 at 23:14:36 -0400, Russ Nelson wrote: > The only complaints I see about the standard map are the ones coming > from railfans who want to see the abandoned railroads put back. Can we > not admit to error?
Rendering a feature because its fans complain loud enough doesn't sound like a good idea, it sounds like a bad precedent which will lead the fans of other features to complain more often. The right solution to this kind of complaint is to help them set up their own thematic map. If the complaints came from non-fans it would be a different issue: if e.g. people who are not sundial nerds start to ask for sundials to be rendered because they are useful landmarks, this is a good reason to consider rendering sundials, even if they are not commonly seen on other maps (afaik). Returning to the main topic of this thread: I also miss the render everything even if it looks like crap approach of the old tiles@home, but I wonder if it is still possibile to have a map like that and still be readable: back then there was much less data on OSM, nowadays I suspect that it would become too clobbered even as a debug tool. -- Elena ``of Valhalla'' _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
