[Talk-GB] Thrapston viaduct

phil at trigpoint.me.uk phil at trigpoint.me.uk
Mon Jul 13 22:17:28 UTC 2015


On Mon Jul 13 19:07:35 2015 GMT+0100, Dave F. wrote:
> Curious: Why don't you think blue for motorways is acceptable?
> 
Blue is the correct colour  for motorways,  I was referring to the coming carto change where they will become orange. 

Phil (trigpoint )
> 
> On 13/07/2015 13:13, Philip Barnes wrote:
> > On Mon, 2015-07-13 at 10:25 +0100, SK53 wrote:
> >> Bridges and other significant remaining infrastructure of railways
> >> tagged as railway=abandoned ceased to be rendered on the Standard
> >> rendering some time ago. There was a degree of dissension with this
> >> decision:
> >> https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/pull/542.
> >>
> >> Certainly I recall a few grumps to that effect on the osm-gb IRC
> >> channel: not least because of the potential value of such routes for
> >> walkers & cyclists.
> >>
> >>
> > I was certainly one of those, disused railways are important and very
> > visible features in rural parts of the UK. I suspect other countries
> > didn't suffer the stupidity of a  Dr Beeching in the way we did.
> >
> > At the time I recall most of the arguments being about railways
> > appearing through housing estates and the solution seemed to be to hide
> > them rather than leave them and allow local mappers to correct the
> > tagging. If its gone and not visible then it should be tagged historic,
> > rather than abandoned.
> >
> > I think this, and blue motorways, is a good argument for why we need a
> > UK render of the map.
> >
> > Phil (trigpoint)
> >
> >
> >
> >
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