<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">2014-07-25 16:20 GMT+02:00 SomeoneElse <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lists@mail.atownsend.org.uk" target="_blank">lists@mail.atownsend.org.uk</a>></span>:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 25/07/2014 15:03, Tom Hughes wrote:<br>
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How about assuming good intent ... <br>
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No-one's suggesting anything other than "people wanting to make the standard layer better". It's "better for what" that's the issue. I think that we ought to be making a map style that better helps people navigate to where they want to go.<br>
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... and making suggestions on how to improve things <br>
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A number of people tried that on<br>
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<a href="https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/pull/542" target="_blank">https://github.com/<u></u>gravitystorm/openstreetmap-<u></u>carto/pull/542</a><br>
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all feedback pretty much fell on deaf ears.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>"better for what" is really the question... and the answer is not clear nor shared.</div><div><br></div><div>For a large group, it should show OSM data, a lot of it to have quick feedback to new contributions as it motivates to go on.</div>
<div>A side goal is to keep incorrectly tagged data not visible.</div><div>This means the default map is made primarily for contributors as reminded by Tom.</div><div><br></div><div>Another goal is to make the map useful for a larger audience, to show that OSM is a cool and useful project.</div>
<div>The rendering in that case puts the priority on map users, and thus should deal with tagging inconsistencies, improve OSM data with some additional ones (hillshade, contours, and maybe more).</div><div><br></div><div>
It seems to me quite difficult to achieve both at the same time as there are a lot of contradictions.</div><div><br></div><div>On the first zoom levels, I think we can put the priority on map users a little bit more... but as map contributors are more checking their work at the highest zoom levels we should stick with strict rendering showing errors. Doing more than that seems difficult or impossible to me.</div>
</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Christian Quest - OpenStreetMap France</div>
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