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28. Nov 2018 19:45 by <a href="mailto:daniel@xn--ko-wla.pl" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">daniel@xn--ko-wla.pl</a>:<br /><br /><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;">W dniu 28.11.2018 o 17:23, Doug Hembry pisze:<br /><blockquote>The point is taken about the workload and lack of coders. It has<br />always amazed me that the team manages to produce a robust, attractive<br />and coherent map from the disparate tagging styles and sometime<br />slightly weird practices that can be found in the database (I'd love<br />to help but I think my coding years are behind me).</blockquote><br /><br />This is complex process and don't worry - coding is typically not the<br />hardest part of it. Analysing the meaning of tagging schemes, and how<br />they are used, is a common part of preparing rendering. Also finding<br />clear design, which is not in conflict with something we already show,<br />can be difficult.<br /></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>And there is one more time-consuming part: </p><p><br /></p><p>testing across diverse locations whatever given styling works well (or at least is it</p><p>acceptable).</p><p><br /></p><p>For example in case of <a href="https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/pull/1736" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/pull/1736</a></p><p>I would estimate effort to go roughly</p><p><br /></p><p>- 1% setup (as most of the development environment was already existing)<br /></p><p>- 5% researching tagging (as roads tagging is relatively well established)</p><p>- 10% researching other maps<br /></p><p>- 5% coding</p><p>- 10% testing whatever my code works as expected</p><p>- 40% testing whatever rendering works well, tweak colour/width/zoom settings and repeat<br /></p><p>- 24% communication (via diary, issues, pull requests, mails etc)</p><p>- 4% asking others what is their comment of given style<br /></p><p>- 1% administrative GSoC overhead</p><p><br /></p><p>note: "collecting new ideas for styling" is not appearing above as there was no dedicated</p><p>time for that (except "researching other maps"), I noted new ideas as they appeared</p><p>during other tasks or during day.<br /></p><p><br /></p><p>beware: it was 3 years ago, and this is based on my memories<br /></p> </body>
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