Re:The current state of map design in OpenStreetMap
by ricardobeat on Saturday April 20, 2024 @05:18PM
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What are the odds, this random example points to only a couple km away from my home.
I had never seen OSM for the area, the detail around Maxis is astounding. And the busway is quite relevant to understand traffic around the area.
Re:The current state of map design in OpenStreetMap
by lukan on Sunday April 21, 2024 @03:23AM
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"What are the odds, this random example points to only a couple km away from my home."
Probably a rhetorical question, but the odds for you individually were probably low, but the odds that the random example (where random here still means close to major cities) was close to some HN reader were probably quite high ..
Re:The current state of map design in OpenStreetMap
by aendruk on Saturday April 20, 2024 @04:58PM
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Don’t wait for me to do it; you can steelman too: It’s plausible that the consequences of an actively wrong implementation would be more costly than this delay.
Instead of just throwing costs at each other, you could acknowledge the other party’s and then argue that yours are greater. (I personally would agree with you about this.)
Like not rendering (bus dedicated) roads despite them being tagged as (bus dedicated) roads using a tag approved by the community three and a half years ago. The openstreetmap.org website currently shows gaps all over the world wherever bus dedicated roads exist. This certainly discourages for mappers.
Compare:
Carto (default):
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/52.32853/5.04991&layer...
Tracestrack Topo:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/52.32853/5.04991&layer...