[Talk-GB] New map style

[Stuart Reynolds]

I don't like it for the simple reason that I think it will fail to win over new Uk users. There are plenty of people who just want to use default tiles to show a location on - sports pitch, scout hall, whatever - and those people will inevitably go to Google. Sure, we understand the differences between a map and data, but we need to engage first and then draw them into making active improvements. And this won't do that because it is so contrary to people's experience.

Regards
Stuart

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> On 1 Nov 2015, at 09:39, Lester Caine <lester at lsces.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> On 01/11/15 07:22, Ed Loach wrote:
>>> It very simple, the colours should match the road sign colours: Blue,
>> Green, Red!
>> 
>> Red?
> 
> Was waiting for someone to pick that one up, and yes it has been some
> time since red was dropped from the legal framework and therefore the
> highway code. But the Blue and Green are well documented and just what
> traffic is restricted from accessing a motorway drummed into people.
> 
> It would be interesting to find out if our French colleagues have any
> plans to switch their servers to the new style, but I expect they will
> be a lot more considerate! The default style they provide is actually a
> better one for the UK than the 'old' style was (wish I'd found it
> sooner!), but along with a few useful variations related to France BOTH
> are available. So I would anticipate that the new style will simply
> become an option there?
> 
> Back to the 'Red' question, and the simplification introduced between
> Primary and non-Primary routes. A quick search on google produces no
> easy answers, and Wikipedia has references to all the legislation, but
> many of the links to VIEW the facts no longer work. It's this disregard
> for maintaining history that annoys me most.
> 
> The bottom line is that 'non-primary' routes are any road used to link
> primary routes, and INCLUDES tertiary routes in many rural areas. Apart
> from the way the the style suddenly appeared rather than a proper roll
> out, my only complaint about the new style is that tertiary routes are
> not included in the 'non-primary' grouping. ADD that to the orange
> routes and it will fix that particular bug. As for the new style ... no
> I don't find it particularly useful at all.
> 
> The use of red, orange and yellow to rate the non-primary routes is
> really only a matter of following the OS conventions. It is one of the
> areas that I have actually adjusted in my own clone of the style and is
> a little different on the French version.
> 
> p.s. - Anybody still got signs with red backgrounds in their area?
> 
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> Lester Caine - G8HFL
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