<div dir="ltr">I'll agree with Andy. Don't drop map features for aesthetic reasons. Maybe we need two styles on the osm.orgm style, a "nice" one for map users and and "ugly", but loaded with features mappers-map.<div>
<br></div><div>regards</div><div>m </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 1:56 AM, SomeoneElse <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lists@mail.atownsend.org.uk" target="_blank">lists@mail.atownsend.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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access=permissive (currently rendered as green dashes) from
openstreetmap-carto, the main map on <a href="http://opensteetmap.org" target="_blank">opensteetmap.org</a>.<br>
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What would be useful would be some comments from the authors of
these changes about what they think the "standard map" is actually
_for_. Previously the story was that it was "for mappers", but that
seems to be no longer the case.<br>
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I've seen very little written justification for this series of
changes. The nearest on the previous change
(<a href="https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/pull/542" target="_blank">https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/pull/542</a>) was
"but I've seen a few "abandoned" railway lines being rendered
diagonally across well mapped housing estates, and it looks
terrible." - which is no justification at all; you could use a
similar argument in favour of not rendering natural=beach because
people use it on golf courses.<br>
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That's not to say that you _couldn't_ make an argument in favour of
the "standard" style becoming an "Open Mapquest Lite" - for map
consumers rather than for map makers - but something needs to
replace it, so that new mappers can see the results of their
efforts. Or maybe mappers are no longer such a rare resource that
we don't need to encourage them any more? <br>
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Cheers,<br>
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Andy<br>
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