[OSM-talk] Crossroad names

[Tom Hughes]

On 24/03/13 16:32, Kevin Peat wrote:
> On 24 March 2013 15:00, Peter Körner <osm-lists at mazdermind.de> wrote:
>
>> Currently ist's really hard for anyone (not just Europeans) to do any change
>> to the mapnik style due tu its complexity. That's why nobody really works on
>> it; not because they don't care but because its freaking hard to get the
>> style to do exactly what you want without destroying sth. else.
>
> The current stylesheet has been stuck for ages, even in Europe there
> are a lot of useful things unrendered. How about OSMF paying someone
> to complete this port? Possibly a corporate sponsor could be found or
> have a kickstarter or something.

What makes you think money is the problem?

The problem is that the original XML stylesheet is all but impossible to 
edit which is why it is being redeveloped in carto and preparations are 
being made for deployment of that redeveloped version.

Tom

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