[Talk-GB] New Map Style feedback

Lester Caine lester at lsces.co.uk
Sun Nov 1 20:17:52 UTC 2015


On 01/11/15 17:26, Mark Goodge wrote:
> 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.

Add into that the growing coverage of the unpopulated area of the UK by
'farmland' which was starting to hide secondary roads on the old style.
I was this that started my original look at modifying the old style
settings before the 'new style' appeared. Higher contrast was needed in
a number of areas to improve visibility, and the new style is actually
taking a backwards step on most of those areas. Still can't produce a
clean sample image as tiles still remain to be re-rendered 48 hours in ...

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