On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 9:07 AM, Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk> wrote:
> On 23/07/15 14:53, André Riedel wrote: > > For me the way motorways and trunks are rendered in the german style > > looks better. > > This is going to a sticking point much of the time. Certainly if the > colours change form the current set, then I think we will be looking to > provide a 'UK' rendering even if that means only covering the UK area. > There is not a 'single' answer that will ever cover the whole planet, > and keeping the 5 colours in the UK is important. > > From a UK point of view there nothing wrong with > http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=12/52.1106/-2.0754 and certainly that > is what is needed for any routing system > I think the standard Mapnik needs to be as generic as possible. Certainly the German model (also used by Navigon, especially before their merger with Garmin) fails on it's face quite similarly to how the iconically American style that Rand McNally popularized <http://maps.randmcnally.com/> (and emulated regularly by Thomas Brothers, MapQuest, and early versions of Google Maps) does. I'm not too intimately familiar with other styles, though I believe the existing Mapnik is a bit more universal than either model (roughly splitting the difference), even if American users unfamiliar with the style are unused to seeing surface expressways (trunks) rendered differently than primaries, and are likely to go "wait, that's a toll road?" seeing green...
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