[OSM-talk] An open letter to OSMF board members.

[Tomas Straupis]

OSM-Carto is a map style for MAPPERS, not for CONSUMERS (should not be used
as a background in general public maps).

Maybe if maintainers would push map to mappers/technical direction more and
completely retract from consumers needs - say make incorrectly tagged
features very visible (something similar to error layer we had years ago),
maybe making some important technical aspects very visible, this would:

* encourage creating OWN styles as per individual requirements - this would
end pointless debate which features have to be rendered, this would also
end pointless discussion that OSM-Carto is bad from cartographic
perspective - because it would be stated (and visible) directly that it is
NOT the point of OSM-Carto (bad naming of style).

* discourage usage of OSMF funded servers for general apps - reduce burden
on budget, infrastructure and admins.

* MAYBE: this would encourage creation of a new cartographic style, which
being not oriented for mappers could be refreshed less often (say weekly or
monthly) therefore would afford doing preparations inevitable for
cartographic maps.

Win-win-win!

P.S. Remember, "OSM is a DATABASE, not a MAP" ;-)

-- 
Tomas
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