[OSM-dev] Default map style on osm.org

[Holger Jeromin]

Peter K schrieb am 28.08.2013 17:05:
>> > See the following video for some background regarding the current
> state of the main map style
> http://vimeopro.com/openstreetmapus/state-of-the-map-us-2013/video/68093876
>> > Since the conference, the new openstreetmap-carto stylesheets are now
> live, and many small improvements are starting to show up.
> 
> I know. This is a really nice direction and lots of possibilities are
> opened via this. But I've always heard/read that the style has to stay
> the same. Could it be an option with Carto-CSS (in the future) that the
> default style is less detailed and mappers can enable this if they want?
> Who can decide and develop this in the future?

I think the rewrite in carto wanted to maintain the visual result to be
sure to be able to switch the main rendering. Otherwise the switch could
be stopped by some for visual reasons.
After the switch we have now a far better basis to discuss the
content/map features to show.

-- 
greetings
Holger Jeromin