[OSM-talk] The Proposed Great Colour Shift

John Eldredge john at jfeldredge.com
Sun Aug 23 22:00:06 UTC 2015


I agree that blue is the logical color for mapping waterways, and should be 
reserved for that purpose.

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John F. Eldredge -- john at jfeldredge.com
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On August 22, 2015 5:11:10 AM Daniel Koć <daniel at koć.pl> wrote:

> W dniu 22.08.2015 1:47, Richard Mann napisał(a):
>> I'd be tempted to leave motorways as blue - it's not such a critical
>> problem as the invisible green trunk roads. Adding one
>
> For me the problem is the same - blue looks like a river and I don't
> know why at least some of UK-ers likes to see the London area roads like
> this (I mean: having to spot two most important road types!):
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=9/51.3289/-0.0673
>
> Its not that "UK style" doesn't work for the rest of the world, it also
> doesn't work for UK on OSM, because we have much more data visible than
> other maps.
>
> That's not against this or any other local styling - I never
> underestimate the power of old habits and I'd like the people to have
> what they want on the output, no matter why they want it, but it's just
> not going to happen as long as default style has a mission to be
> universal.
>
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