[Talk-GB] New map style

[jonathan]

+1

http://bigfatfrog67.me

On 01/11/2015 09:46, Stuart Reynolds wrote:
> 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
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> 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?
>>
>> -- 
>> Lester Caine - G8HFL
>> -----------------------------
>> Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact
>> L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk
>> EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/
>> Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk
>> Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Talk-GB mailing list
>> Talk-GB at openstreetmap.org
>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
> _______________________________________________
> Talk-GB mailing list
> Talk-GB at openstreetmap.org
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb