On 20/08/15 02:16, Jóhannes Birgir Jensson wrote: > The question really arises if this change is beneficial or not for the > project. Many hours have gone into it and doing CartoCSS on all these > zoom levels is not trivial. But this is a major shift on the front page > of our website, a blow to those who use the default tiles through uMap > or similarly and depend on the UK rainbow road style and makes life > harder for mappers to visually confirm the type of road. > > Should this be a new, alternative style instead?
That a UK version will appear is a simple fact. Ideally I would like anybody looking up OSM in the UK to be directed to that version. That may be a little more difficult to achieve, but removes the WTF provided by a more international solution? The problem of cause is that one has to switch to another server to get areas outside the UK unless we can provided a complete duplicate of the existing service ... retaining the current style base. For me, the new style is a pointless exercise since I NEED to retain a UK view of the data, and I am sure other countries would also prefer to retain their own road colour preferences so trying to provide an international style has a limited 'market'? If anything it simply drives us to provided more local styled services? I'm not going to object to the current plans, simply because I don't have to live with it, but I don't think that it IS the right development path for many reasons. Just what is the convention in the US, Russia or China? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk