[OSM-talk] Request for feedback: new building colours in openstreetmap-carto

[Lester Caine]

On 27/11/14 09:42, Matthijs Melissen wrote:
> 
> On 27 Nov 2014 09:18, "Lester Caine" <lester at lsces.co.uk
> <mailto:lester at lsces.co.uk>> wrote:
>> Not sure your demo is proving anything. Zooming in on the area covered
>> by the demo on the live map I'm not seeing very much of the corruptions
> 
> Have their been corruptions? I sm not sure what you are referring to.

THIS is a matter of different areas needing different treatment. The
sample I pointed to has had a few notes added about names being wrong,
but actually because of the close proximity of buildings the names which
WERE in brown a year or so ago are now in purple and pushed perhaps two
buildings away! Currently most of the purple text is mainly across an
adjacent building.

>> introduced by switching building names from brown to purple
> 
> We have neither brown nor purple building names, nor have we ever had
> them. Brown is used for some amenities, and pink is used for shops. This
> hasn't changed lately.

If I look at the area used in the building colour demo on the main map
there is considerably less purple text. If my areas were rendered as
tidily there would not be a problem. I'm not sure when it changed, but
end users are now commenting on it :(

>> and adding
>> the 'centroid' dt which then pushes everything off to one side :(
> 
> Sorry, I don't understand what you mean.

Because the 'unclassified' icon is a dot, it is dropped on the building,
so the text is now below the building ... on the next one.

>> I don't
>> unfortunately have an example of the section which had much tidier brown
>> text on all the buildings, but I think I HAVE established that a zoom
>> level should use the icon OMLY when the name is not displayed, and if
>> there is no icon don't just display a dot :(
> 
> The purple dots are used for shop types for which we don't have a
> specific icon. We haven't received other complaints about this. This
> dhould not have replaced any brown.

As I said ... I'm not sure when this did change, but it may be that
since we ARE now adding a lot more fine detail it is that which has
changed, but I AM convinced I had a much cleaner view of the areas I
work in previously, and I add detail so I can use these maps as location
maps to replace Google on websites. It is my customers who are
commenting ... not complaints, but something has changed for them to
comment! I've been using these for the last few years.

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