<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>I miss the white lines on blurry Landsat background. So simple and elegant. Can someone set that up and make it an option in the layer switcher? ;)</span></div><div></div><div> </div><div>* Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Richard Fairhurst <richard@systemed.net><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> talk@openstreetmap.org <br> <b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, July 20, 2013 9:39 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>Andrew Errington wrote:<br>> Also, my proposal for including <br>> a "markerlink" has not been taken up.<br><br>Yet. Rome wasn't built in a day. <br><br>> I also didn't see any consultation on this topic. Just another <br>> fait accompli.<br><br>Hey Andrew, I noticed you did some edits to the map the other day. That's<br>fine, but you didn't give everyone a chance to comment on them before doing<br>them. I think some of the tagging you used could have been improved, and<br>your geometry is a bit off. Also, that road was arguably a highway=track,<br>surface=asphalt, but you tagged it as highway=service. Please make sure to<br>carry out full consultation before doing any edits. You just did them as a<br>fait accompli and I think that's
wrong.<br><br>...Exactly.<br><br>These things are discussed, and discussed openly. It's just that the forum<br>for discussion is not the bearpit that is talk@ (with good reason); that,<br>pretty obviously, we don't wait to get the approval of every single OSM user<br>before deploying; that we sometimes deploy in-progress work rather than<br>waiting for every little detail to be fixed; and that we sometimes make<br>changes that some people will never like.<br><br>Because otherwise, the site would never change at all, and we'd still be on<br>the Java applet (pre-Potlatch 1) with some barely legible white lines on a<br>blurry Landsat background. At the same time as you're posting sceptically on<br>this list, SteveC is moaning on Twitter about it being too little, too late<br>(bit odd that a founding father spends so much time publicly slagging off<br>"his" project, but there you go, everyone loves him for it). You simply<br>can't keep everyone
happy.<br><br>OSM works because we trust that talented people will do amazing things. OSM<br>trusts you, as a talented mapper, to make good edits in your area. OSM<br>trusts the talented developers and sysadmins to do good things with the site<br>and the hardware. Some things will happen which are not 100% to your liking.<br>Learn to deal with it.<br><br>Because the alternative is that, every time you make an edit, Andrew, you<br>get 30 complaining mails saying "well I'd have done it differently, you<br>should have asked me first". The effect is that you give up editing. Believe<br>me: I have some pretty obvious first-hand experience of this.<br><br>cheers<br>Richard<br><br><br><br><br><br>--<br>View this message in context: <a href="http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Upgraded-map-controls-tp5770491p5770535.html" target="_blank">http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Upgraded-map-controls-tp5770491p5770535.html</a><br>Sent from the General Discussion mailing list
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