[OSM-talk] Response to A critique of OpenStreetMap

Valent Turkovic valent.turkovic at gmail.com
Fri Oct 15 11:06:13 BST 2010


On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 18:36:48 +0000, Ed Avis wrote:

> That's surely a lot of the reason why OSM looks strange from an American
> point of view, but he does have a couple of valid points - the map does
> look a bit 'washed out' at low zoom levels, with many similar shades of
> almost-grey (which may be tasteful for a printed map, but less good on a
> computer screen), and again at low zoom levels the country and city
> labels look very similar.

This seams a simple problem to solve, right? Only some minor adjustement 
in mapnik colour scheme to get higher contrast ratio between different 
objects.

Can I contribute somehow and get this done?



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