[OSM-talk] New OSM Carto: White Roads & Road Widths

[Pieren]

On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 3:39 PM, Christoph Hormann <chris_hormann at gmx.de> wrote:

> Also not correct, various alternatives were tested, samples were shown,
> areas where problems occur were mentioned, advantages and disadvantages
> of various options mentioned, you can hardly cover this more in depth
> than this.
>
> Note ultimately design decisions are always subjective.  If at the end
> of a long process a decision is made without once more listing in depth
> all arguments for and against it this does not mean the decision is
> arbitrary.

I didn't express myself since a long time on this list. I just
discovered the new style and wanted to undestand how it was possible
to kill the tertiary road type in OSM. Because it must be clear : if a
road class is not rendered, it will be ignored by most of the
contributors in the future. That's it.
And after reading the thread on github, I'm surprised to see how easy
the warnings have been ignored. Maybe because the style developers
underestimated its importance (only 4 millions ways) ?
This is not a message to minimize the huge efforts and positive
improvements about this change.

Pieren