<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">On Mar 17, 2015, at 4:55 PM, Paul Johnson <<a href="mailto:baloo@ursamundi.org">baloo@ursamundi.org</a>> wrote:</span></font></div></div></div></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">That said, I wonder what Andy's opposition to rendering the colour tag on the Transport layer is... </span></font></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">_______________________________________________<br>Tagging mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Tagging@openstreetmap.org">Tagging@openstreetmap.org</a><br></span></font></blockquote><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging</a></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div>Yes - there is a big difference between allowing different colored style sheets in each country and making OSM/carto devise a way to handle the color tag for railways and certain roads (maybe part of the line or casing is colored or something) and handling regional iconography for common places. </div><div><br></div><div>This would be beneficial to all countries, especially of we want the maps to be used by the people who live there - we already argue that the local language should be used, even in places like Japan where almost all signs on the road [several million local road signs] are in both English and Japanese, so why shouldn't we use the iconography and basic color choices for major transportation features either? Isn't that the "local language" of the map?</div><div><br></div><div>We handle languages, iconography and way color should be the same. </div><div><br></div><div>Javbw.</div></body></html>