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I hope you've all seen this article, about subtle design changes they made at google. Attention to detail is really critical:
http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009/10/evolving-look-of-...
There's not enough contrast between the street names and the rest of the map, making readability a problem. It's the kind of design mistake that young people with nice monitors make!
Great news! Is this available at high zooms across the US and Canada yet?
There's not enough contrast between the street names and the rest of the map, making readability a problem. It's the kind of design mistake that young people with nice monitors make!
Short story is that it could be much bolder and more colorful, at the cost of aesthetics. A growing number of users have good screens - sometimes excellent screens like most mobile devices.
There's not enough contrast between the street names and the rest of the map, making readability a problem. It's the kind of design mistake that young people with nice monitors make!
This was designed primarily on a MacBook Pro running Linux, so the colors were oddly calibrated. We tested it on several other calibrated monitors, and a few other devices (iPhone/Pad/Android). Short story is that it could be much bolder and more colorful, at the cost of aesthetics. A growing number of users have good screens - sometimes excellent screens like most mobile devices.
What does it look like on grandma's 17 inch crt from 2002?
and I think there are not enough details for a medieval city : http://a.tiles.mapbox.com/v3/mapbox.mapbox-streets.html#16.0...
but I think the color scheme is pleasant.
Have you considered doing different map renderings for different purposes? (this very brown-grey theme might not work well for dark-background websites, and some people might want extra data such as train stations added)?
It seems that you can't zoom in as far as Google Maps?
Its good to see some decent visual rendering of OSM data. I appreciate your choice in not colouring the roads in, (for some reason people always do this - maybe they don't realise that users don't use online maps to drive a car!). Visually, it is quite clear in most cases, which is nice (despite, as always having some difficulty with overground/underground objects in the same location). Have you considered doing diff…