[OSM-dev] The OSM reference map/the default map style on osm.org

[Gregory]

I believe when it's referred to as the the "reference map" people are just
commenting how it's (understandably) become the De Facto standard.
It's on the osm.org homepage and people go there and click "edit" to change
the map. When they click "view" they expect/want to see their changes.

For a short time the layer names were displayed as buttons on the map. With
the big redesign/rebuild the buttons are now hidden under an unlabelled
icon and not the first item in the menu. I think that had been helping
people understand the concept of different maps/layers.

This page (and the guidelines it links to) are probably of interest to you:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Featured_tiles


On 30 August 2013 12:43, Sandor Seres <sandors39 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> during the latest discussion-wave related to the default rendering stiles
> someone (I think Peter K.) used the notion "reference map" for the OSM
> Slippymap. If this is so, I need some help to understand - in what sense is
> this map the OSM reference map?
> 1. Is this the most correct map (the decoration/styling is irrelevant)
> that is possible to be produced/constructed using the OSM source data? or
> 2. Is this a map that perfectly reflects the OSM source data-set as is,
> with all logical and other errors?
> The question may sound banal but it is essential to many mappers that are
> extensive users of the OSM source data. These mappers, of course, compare
> their maps with other's especially with the OSM "reference map".
> Thanks, Sandor.
>
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