[OSM-talk] recent changes in rendering the map make it worse

[Christoph Hormann]

On Tuesday 22 September 2015, henk van der laan wrote:
> Over the past couple of month some big changes in the rendering of
> the map have been made.
> These changes do not improve the readabillity of the map, and despite
> it's good intentions do not seem to take into account the basics of
> map rendering, but rather look at tagging and decide on that.

Not sure if you are aware of this but with that introductory statement 
you essentially say that everyone who contributed to the standard style 
in the last months has done a poor job and essentially is incompetent.

That certainly is an opinion that can be respected but you need to 
expect that quite a few people will disagree here which is not a very 
good basis regarding the rest of your critique.

Long story short: development of the standard style is open to 
everyone - if there are things you would like to improve and feel you 
can do better you are welcome to contribute.  There are several open 
issues in the bug tracker already dealing with problems introduced by 
recent changes and you are welcome to make specific suggestions how to 
improve things there.  But just stating a sweeping 'every change is 
bad' without showing that you have considered the reasons why this 
change has been made in the first place does not make you very 
believable.

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Christoph Hormann
http://www.imagico.de/