[josm-dev] Can I style by user in mappaint?

[Ulf Lamping]

Am 16.01.2010 06:56, schrieb Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason:
> The search is exposed to users,

When I read the search help you should probably better say: the search 
is exposed to highly advanced users or developers ;-)

> there are currently 5 custom stylesheets for JOSM.

That's just not true. There are several users out there who've written 
their own styles or at least "patched" the existing style.

When i compare the number of questions about it and the number of styles 
in the Wiki [1], a lot of them aren't doing it in public.

> I can't the easy of use concern here,

That's obvious.

> stylesheets are either written by developers or automatically
> generated by user-friendly programs.

We don't have a user-friendly program to edit the stylesheets. To be 
honest I've personally not seen *any* user friendly program for *any* 
OSM renderer to edit any of the stylesheets.


What you are actually saying is: I don't care if a non developer can 
edit this, as long as I can do what I want.

With your approach there's unfortunately a price for all of us to pay: 
less people will be able or willing to contribute.


I've spend a lot of time maintaining the elemstyles.xml and I recently 
got the hope that more people will help in this effort by providing 
their "special topic" styles.

In the years passed, all of the problems I've heard were about getting a 
special display done somehow. *None* so far asked about search terms.

Regards, ULFL

[1] http://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Styles