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Re:The current state of map design in OpenStreetMap by loceng on Saturday April 20, 2024 @04:30PM (#40100761)
Oh boy, global consensus? That's a big ask.

Why not allow branches of divergence? You'll maintain a higher and increasing level of free help from a bigger base of contributors that way.

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Re:The current state of map design in OpenStreetMap by aendruk on Saturday April 20, 2024 @04:38PM (#40100831)
> global consensus?

No, that’s not what I wrote. It’s local consensus on a system that is fit for global use, which means being cautious about what concepts receive special treatment from the renderer.

> not allow branches of divergence

I’m not sure where you got this idea. It’s explicitly licensed under CC0 and GitHub shows 800 forks. This freedom to diverge is one of the arguments in support of being conservative about changes to the common default.

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Re:The current state of map design in OpenStreetMap by wcedmisten on Saturday April 20, 2024 @04:37PM (#40100820)
There are kind of branches already (other layers have different styles [1]), but this debate is over the default layer style, which appears on first page load of openstreetmap.org

[1]: Transport Map Layer https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/42.3594/-71.1051&layer...

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