[Talk-GB] New Map Style feedback

[Mark Goodge]

On 01/11/2015 17:09, Amaroussi (OpenStreetMap) wrote:

> While I believe that the new rendering has potential, I am suggesting
> that in order to resolve concerns about the portrayal of tertiary
> roads, the motorways on the mainstream style should be blue, purple
> or violet instead of the current shade of rose. This would free up
> rose for trunk roads, red for primary roads and so on until yellow
> for tertiary.

That would make sense. It isn't just the difficulty in distinguishing 
tertiary from residential roads, but also that in rural areas white is 
too similar to the background and just disappears at overview level. I'm 
not too bothered as to precisely what colour tertiary roads are, but 
they do need to have a colour which stands out against beige.

> The ability for OSM to render the “British” colours alongside the new
> style colours would depend on what resources they have, but I will
> support adding an alternative layer to the main site that uses the
> “British” colours, as soon as the alternative tile server goes live:
> it is clear that there is no clear standard for how roads are
> coloured. I will suggest however that the “British” stylesheet be
> based from the main openstreetmap-carto style, in order to ease
> maintenance.

I would be happy to contribute financially to setting up a UK 
tileserver, so that http://www.openstreetmap.uk uses a UK-specific style 
by default in the same way that http://tile.openstreetmap.fr does for 
France. I'd be interested to know what kind of specification the 
hardware for that would need, based on typical usage figures of the main 
site from UK users.

Mark