[OSM-talk] New Google Maps style - interesting cartographic innovation

[Janko Mihelić]

I'm guessing Google is not only using POIs, but several other sources, like
geo Tweets, got tagged photos put up on Google+, and so on. I think they
are trying to make it easy for tourists to find the "in" spots where
something is happening. If you're trying to find a nice restaurant, night
club, pub or something like that, zoom in to the yellow area.

Janko

pon, 8. kol 2016. u 12:39 Oleksiy Muzalyev <oleksiy.muzalyev at bluewin.ch>
napisao je:

> Using colors like this is an excellent idea, however we shall not rely
> on colors alone as several percent of people cannot distinguish colors
> due to color blindness [1]. Besides, color blindness may develop with an
> advanced age, so no one is color-safe.
>
> We do not hear often about color blindness as people tend not to speak
> about it. But in fact maybe up to ten percent cannot see differences
> between certain colors at all.
>
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness
>
> brgds
> O.M.
>
> On 07.08.2016 1:43, Michał Brzozowski wrote:
> > There has been an update to Google Maps styling [1] and I have to say,
> > they left me impressed.
> > The overall look is cleaner, which is very welcome after a series of
> > disappointing changes, but the thing I consider very innovative is how
> > buildings (and on lower zooms - areas) with lots of "activities" (i.e.
> > POIs) are highlighted in beige.
> >
> > Now, traditional topo maps use building type attribute for this, eg.
> > Polish ones use dark brown for public/retail buildings, orange for
> > residential, violet for industrial and gray for everything else.
> > Our (and I presume Google's no better) building type tagging is pretty
> > sparse, so this is a no-go.
> >
> > I wonder whether somebody could cook up a proof of concept of this for
> > OSM styling to see how it would work out. One may play with assigning
> > different weights to POIs according to their type or perceived
> > importance via Wiki{pedia|data} tags.
> >
> > Michał
> >
> > [1]
> https://maps.googleblog.com/2016/07/discover-action-around-you-with-updated.html
> >
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