[Talk-GB] Restoring a usable map service!

[tony wroblewski]

I much prefer that style in your screengrab. It clearly shows what is
or isn't a motorway and I think it's almost universally accepted (In
Europe at least), that motorways are shown in blue.

The current problem I see with the new default style is that it's very
very difficult to now plan routes on a zoomed out map. I can't clearly
see, for example, what is or isn't a motorway around Birmingham.
Although the new theme looks nice, it is much less practical than the
old one

On 1 November 2015 at 11:02, Lester Caine <lester at lsces.co.uk> wrote:
> On 31/10/15 21:51, Frederik Ramm wrote:
>> As for the remainder of your posting, about a "single base" and how all
>> this is somehow related to a few colours changing on the osm.org map, I
>> think you lost me there.
>
> Answered the colour problem in the thread on New Map Style.
>
> The problem with setting up a tile server is the GENERATION of the tiles
> and how that can be modified to provide the other element I've been
> banging on about. Viewing the UK at a point in time rather than simply
> providing what is the current often incorrect view of the country.
> (Roads around Coventry are still wrong while the older views were
> actually better). I switched from Apache to Nginx on the servers for the
> performance improvements it gives working with the PHP sites I manage,
> and it SHOULD be simple to get Nginx to front access to both the tile
> server and the editing tools for playing with the style sheets. It
> proxies everything else happily enough and serves all the PHP static
> material directly.
>
> I got to
> http://lsces.co.uk/storage/attachments/71/2071/osm-lsces-z11.png but I
> need to pull the nice county boundary twiddle from the French style
> sheet now and work out why some mass 'farm' areas still display
> incorrectly. That one is a tagging problem in the data!
>
> http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/OSM+Development was where I was back in August,
> but I've not been able to get back to that since, and the current fire
> fighting will add further to that delay :(
>
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