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

[Andy Allan]

On 28 August 2013 16:48, Eugene Alvin Villar <seav80 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think that being pretty is not the goal of the default map style at all.
> The primary goal of the default style is to expose as much of the OSM data
> as possible.

That's widely held opinion, but there's an equally sized opinion that
would heartily disagree.

The cartography work that I do is not intended as a simplistic
multicoloured "visualisation of the database". It's a map, and
cartographic decisions about what to show, and what to leave out, are
key to its success. "Expose as much of the OSM data as possible" is
only a goal with a sufficiently loose definition of 'as possible'.

Cheers,
Andy