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I get what you're asking here, but I think it's important to note that OSM's primary value is in its data, not in a human-consumable map. So if I could respect
by beej71 2y ago
I get what you're asking here, but I think it's important to note that OSM's primary value is in its data, not in a human-consumable map.
So if I could respectfully amend your request, I'd say I hope some third party can really nail this at some point. Organic Maps is pretty good, but I still need Google maps for a number of things. But even if that doesn't ever happen, the free OSM data is invaluable in a large number of GIS contexts.
(I'm an opinionated OSM contributor since 2007. :)
- jwagenet 2y agoNeither mapy nor the default tileset should have maximal information. Perhaps you can argue google is primarily for navigation and default OSM is not, but that doesn’t mean it should have all the OSM data represented at each layer.
- afavour 2y ago> I think it's important to note that OSM's primary value is in its data, not in a human-consumable map I agree in theory but OSM does have a human consumable map. I think it’s in the projects interest for that default to be as good as it can be, rather than rely on third parties.
- darthwalsh 2y agoThere's often discussions in the default OSM map renderer project[1] about what the goal of the project should be. A lot of people have niche interests that they want implemented in the map, but that just looks busy to everybody else. [1] https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto