Great! I'll surely count on your expertise, Matthijs. I think the guys at the design list can help us arrive at a good visual style for this. We can start with our 2 cents (malenki's suggestions seem like a great starting point).
I agree with Richard, here on the tagging list we should not be concerned with rendering specifics. However, for me it's been great in understanding which factors seem more important to most people across different cultures, in order to establish the major difference at the right spot. A rendering decision requires an insight in tag semantics, and in this case also involves a tagging culture change (promoting a specific tag) that may even spread all the way down to editors such as JOSM and iD. If nobody disagrees, I'll consider that the tracktype tag is the best choice for this decision, and that any value besides grade1 deserves some marking meaning it's not in what most people consider "good condition". I believe an effective way to get people to use tracktype that way is, beyond a wiki update, also an update on JOSM's presets (in this case, simply adding a tracktype field in several presets). Experient mappers (most of those using JOSM) will quickly get the message and then pass it along to new users. On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 11:01 PM, Matthijs Melissen < i...@matthijsmelissen.nl> wrote: > On 31 December 2013 22:27, Fernando Trebien <fernando.treb...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I was thinking of a colour change (like the Humanitarian style does), > but a > > dashed outline would be just fine for me. After deciding which tags > should > > be used, I think I'd leave the aesthetic decision to people in the > "design" > > list or (perhaps better) to Carto's developers (I don't know who made > > Carto's style but I've heard a professional cartographer was hired for > > that). > > The Carto style is maintained by Andy Allan aka gravitystorm: > https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto. The Carto design > is basically a direct copy of the older Mapnik XML design, of which I > don't know who wrote it. Apart from Andy, many people, including me, > have contributed to the Carto style. I have worked on the rendering of > roads, so if you like, I can help you in writing up the change. Just > keep in mind I don't know anything about cartography or design either, > I'm just good at typing out other peoples' ideas in a machine-readable > form :). > > -- Matthijs > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > -- Fernando Trebien +55 (51) 9962-5409 "The speed of computer chips doubles every 18 months." (Moore's law) "The speed of software halves every 18 months." (Gates' law)
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