<div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Richard Fairhurst <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richard@systemed.net" target="_blank">richard@systemed.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">Matt Amos wrote:<br>
> i'd sound a note of caution about having separate "clean" and<br>
> "detailed" styles. we sort-of did that before with mapnik and<br>
> osmarender respectively and... well, we don't have<br>
> osmarender any more.<br>
<br>
</div>That was a technology failure, though, rather than anything wrong with the<br>
concept itself.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>the greater resources required to render osmarender worldwide may have played a part, but that part of the problem was the one getting the most attention with tiles@home and so forth. my take on it was that many, perhaps most, people felt the extremely "detailed" style that osmarender/tiles@home was producing wasn't as pleasant as the mapnik style, so it got second billing, less re-use, and that's what led to its decline.</div>
<div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
In principle, there are clear, identifiable, distinct needs for a "showcase<br>
style" and a "debugging view". We want the great unwashed to look at OSM and<br>
say "wow, that's a complete, accurate map"; and we want our mappers to enjoy<br>
the gratification of seeing their changes rendered, because that's a<br>
powerful incentive to keep contributing.<br>
<br>
(I use the word "view" rather than "style" because it's conceivable that the<br>
latter could be provided some other way than a traditional Mapnik<br>
stylesheet, perhaps something along the lines of Kothic-JS.)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>i agree, but would go further and suggest that the debugging view might be better constructed on top of the "showcase style", rather than being able to (d)evolve independently of it. i would further suggest that the gratification of seeing changes rendered is strongly reliant on those changes being visible directly on <a href="http://osm.org">osm.org</a>, which (i think) leads to the conclusion that these two "views" cannot be separate, and must be integrated somehow.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
(For the showcase style, personally I think XML vs CSS is more of a problem<br>
than svn vs git, but that's an implementation detail.)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>i'd like to applaud Andy Allan's recent work in this area [1]. this is excellent stuff, and many thanks to Andy for starting it :-)</div>
<div><br></div><div>cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>matt</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto">https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto</a></div></div></div>