On Monday 25 September 2017, Frederik Ramm wrote: > > Also, personally I'm in a similar situation to Maarten. I'm from > Germany and I don't want a map with all German or all English names; > ideally I want a map with local names except where I can't read them > ;)
While i understand this view and also see you are saying this with a bit of irony it seriously saddens me that apparently a large fraction of the OSM community actually thinks this way and wants the OSMF to invest ressources in a map that is well readable for them rather than a map that represents and communicates the diversity of the global OSM community. I would want the map to display in a way that is well readable and gives good feedback to the *local mappers* everywhere on earth and that gives me an impression of the local cultural and geographic particularities of the area irrespective of if i can read the names or not. I would want this by default even if technology also offered a 'filter bubble' version that shows me the map as i allegedly would want it to see where every place on earth looks like my home town. I also want to cite from the current goals of OSM-Carto: https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/blob/master/CARTOGRAPHY.md "Diversity - The style should represent the diversity of the OSM community and geography in general. The most obvious element to serve this goal is showing the local names everywhere on earth in their respective scripts. This goal however goes beyond labels. Both physical and cultural geography differs a lot globally and the aim is to represent this variety with equal determination - well mapped areas are not supposed to have more weight here than less mapped parts of the world. This also means the target map user is the potential global map user and no special consideration is given to the current geographic distribution of actual map use." Changing that would mean aiming the map more at the same target as commercial map providers, i.e. serving the economically important and influential map user groups, giving them what market research tells you they want and giving up on the core of what makes the OSM standard style unique and forms a significant part of what attracts people to OSM. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk