[OSM-talk] Front page design and SEO

[Robert (Jamie) Munro]

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Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> Andy Allan wrote:
>> Quite. Can someone please come up with names for the two "main" 
>> styles that aren't just the technology that creates them?
> 
> Mapnik -> Standard (or maybe 'Classic')

I think that the Mapnik layer should be called "UK Style". Green trunk
roads, Blue motorways etc. are all standard features of British maps,
and not in use as much elsewhere.

We should dedicate some resources to making a few other Mapnik-generated
layers for US, German and other popular countries styles. We've already
got Cycle Map, Piste Map etc.

> Osmarender -> Community

Osmarender's lowzoom, which shows all the roads in the db scaled down
and down until they are just shades of colour on the map does look
beautiful. But in general, and I hate to say this, it is just an uglier
map than Mapnik and I don't think it needs to be maintained.

The resources it uses for the central tile server and the TRAPI, ROMA
and XAPI servers could probably generate and maintain a custom mapnik
layer each - possibly more than one.

That's not to say it isn't worth having some ROMA and/or XAPI servers
around for Sat-Nav and GIS applications to use.

It would be nice to have a lowzoom map to look at that is just Mapnik
z12 without captions repeatedly stitched and scaled, though - I just
love the Osmarender lowzoom layers (when/where they work).

Robert (Jamie) Munro
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