[Talk-GB] [OSM-dev] New Map Style feedback

[Lester Caine]

On 02/11/15 10:56, Andy Robinson wrote:
> I agree that the abandonging of the blue for motorways is a bad choice. 
> It is not only a british color, motorways are signalled in blue also in lots of other countries in europe.
> But that is not really the issue. It is not that a colorscheme should follow the colorscheme of a particular country per se. The current color scheme just makes it hard to distinguish roads. Teritary roads, being white, are all but unrecognizable. Looking at motorways, trunk roads or primary roads, I can not tell one from the other, except when I see two next to eachother.
> Furthermore, on high zooms, roads have gotten too fat. It makes the map look bulky.
> 
> The colorscheme for roads is defintely a step back from the previous.

Now that I've got an easy toggle between the new style and the French
tile server a few more backwards steps become apparent. The other WTF
I've just hit is the excessive stripping of place names at some zoom
levels? Simplifying the map is one thing, but having to toggle in and
out of levels to see detail is a problem. Google and Bing are less
cluttered because they don't have the same fine detail that OSM has
access to and while we can't display everything, but the new stripping
seems to me to be a little excessive?

My main complaint is one that applied to the old style as well and that
is that the general drift over time to more 'pastel' colouring. The new
style is a further loss of contrast! That is why I've been looking to a
style that restores a more usable map for the visually impaired as
demonstrated by the sample I provided earlier.

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