[OSM-talk] proposed feature, opinions requested

[Michael Collinson]

At 09:33 AM 12/21/2007, Abigail Brady wrote:
>On Dec 21, 2007 5:28 AM, J.D. Schmidt 
><<mailto:jdsmobile at gmail.com>jdsmobile at gmail.com> wrote:
>Is it really necessary to go that finegrained down, in the definition of
>the landuse tag ?
>
>
>Certainly yes.
>
>Do we want a psychedelic multicolored map, or do we want something that
>people can stand to look at for prolonged durations ? If the former is
>the general consensus, we should already now think about putting a
>disclaimer directed at the possible viewers suffering from visually
>induced epileptic seizures, at the bottom of the mappage...
>
>
>Just because it is tagged differently doesn't mean that general 
>renderers have to use the different colours to display.  A custom 
>airport renderer would *certainly* want to distinguish between air 
>land and nearby industrial land.

Well put.  The OSM database, the tags, represents a brain-dump from 
each individual mapper.  The more we can can capture in one go, the 
better.  Emphasis to date has naturally been on the generic renderers 
but I'm looking forward to 2008 being the year of the specialists: 
tourism, local micromaps, sports, hobbies, organisations, 
occupational, scientific, language, culture ... Nick's UK hiker 
Freemap and Andy's cycle initiative are only excellent 
beginnings.  These will be what clearly put clear blue water between 
us and the commercial offerings.

Mike
Stockholm
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