[OSM-talk] Map key

[Matthijs Melissen]

On 17 October 2015 at 10:45, Lester Caine <lester at lsces.co.uk> wrote:
> On 17/10/15 09:03, nebulon42 wrote:
>> I don't know an ETA of this change on the tile servers yet as it is a
>> quite major change. Others may be able to comment on that.
>
> Is this ACTUALLY a 'done deal'? I though there was a going to be at
> least some option to ask if there was a more general agreement for the
> change.

The code is ready for release at the moment. We're just holding back
for a moment to allow the maintainers of iD and the map key to
synchronise.

Of course nothing in the free/open software world is ever a 'done
deal' in the sense that no further changes are possible. The
stylesheet is an ongoing project, so we allow, and in fact we expect,
that there will be further changes to the road colours after we roll
out the current version. At the moment, also taking the comments we
received from the community into account, we find that the changes are
a sufficient improvement to roll out the new colour scheme.

> But I have no doubt other sources will become live if the change goes
> ahead with their own style of map key ...

Yes, as I mentioned before, I agree it'd be useful if the UK community
would come up with their own rendering scheme (or perhaps keep the
current scheme) for people used to the UK colour style, just like
there are regional styles for the French and German colour schemes.

-- Matthijs