[OSM-dev] New Map Style feedback

[Amaroussi (OpenStreetMap)]

Hi all,

I have been gathering thoughts from the talk-gb list and my main concern now is how the tertiary roads are shown, especially in countries where people map roads according to quality and hierarchy (and there are more than one). In Greece, tertiary roads connect all villages while in Thailand, tertiary roads have an important use in referring to roads with four digit numbers.

While I believe that the new rendering has potential, I am suggesting that in order to resolve concerns about the portrayal of tertiary roads, the motorways on the mainstream style should be blue, purple or violet instead of the current shade of rose. This would free up rose for trunk roads, red for primary roads and so on until yellow for tertiary.

The ability for OSM to render the “British” colours alongside the new style colours would depend on what resources they have, but I will support adding an alternative layer to the main site that uses the “British” colours, as soon as the alternative tile server goes live: it is clear that there is no clear standard for how roads are coloured. I will suggest however that the “British” stylesheet be based from the main openstreetmap-carto style, in order to ease maintenance.

Best,

— Amaroussi