[OSM-talk] New osmarender markings - what does dashed blackmean?

[spaetz]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 11:34:54AM +1000, Ian Sergeant wrote:
> stage, and meanwhile there is someone on their hands and knees in Snowdonia
> making use of an OSM rendered map.  It's all good.

Agreed
 
> However, 80n may be underestimating the importance of changes to osmarender
> in influencing what is tagged and how.
> 
> Brent certainly has a point that a community will feel disenfranchised by
> going through a long winded process to gain "consensus" and still not have
> a feature rendered - to see others just making changes they want (and told
> to build their own renderer/server if they don't like it!).

It's rather easy to get SVN access and the stylesheets or osma are not that complicated. Everyone who has seen a CSS will be able to do it. Rather than obliging 80n and others to implement the features they voted on, I'd rather see more people actually implementing the stuff in osma (or sending patches). In the end, it's our spare time and if it's not 80n's itch to show on the map whether a pharmacy dispenses prescription drugs or not, why should he be forced to implement it?

Looking at the changelog of osmarender5 (http://trac.openstreetmap.org/log/applications/rendering/osmarender5) it doesn't seem like many people have actually bothered to take action and actually add some CSS rules to a stylesheet.

If more people picked up things from map features and implemented it, people would have less reason to complain.

> OSM is growing rapidly, but I for one still want people like 80n developing
> new features, and people like Brent helping map Sydney and surrounds, and
> both feeling involved in the process.

Agreed

Happy mapping,
spaetz
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