[OSM-talk] Actually using OpenStreetMap and the usabilityof the current maps

Dave Stubbs osm.list at randomjunk.co.uk
Mon Jul 28 17:45:18 BST 2008


On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Juan Lucas Dominguez Rubio
<jldominguez at prodevelop.es> wrote:
> Hello, Inge. The maps shown at http://www.openstreetmap.org cannot be taken
> seriously. They have mistakes (religious symbols out of place), absurd
> rendering criteria (large pint glasses) and traces of mathematical
> mediocrity (watch the scale bar in any Scandinavian city : it's simply
> wrong). It's sad to see those things are not corrected, because it would
> take a little effort. But somehow, nobody cares.


Nice. (that's a deeply ironic "nice" BTW).

Patches welcome I'm sure, but remember that other people may have opinions too.

Without patches I'm going to be assuming you don't actually care, as
apparently it'll take only a little effort, so why wouldn't you?

Dave




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