I have found an interesting blogpost about Map readability. It only compares Google, Bing and Yahoo maps, but those infos may be interesting to apply to OSM.
http://www.41latitude.com/post/2072504768/google-maps-label-readability
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I have found an interesting blogpost about Map readability. It only compares Google, Bing and Yahoo maps, but those infos may be interesting to apply to OSM.
http://www.41latitude.com/post/2072504768/google-maps-label-readability
Discussion
Kommentti käyttäjältä kerosin 17. February 2011 klo 10.49
Nice blogpost. Thanks for posting it here!
Would be interesting to compare the readability to OSM...
Kommentti käyttäjältä liftarn 17. February 2011 klo 11.36
Interesting. Most of the trick could probably quite easily be used with OSM data as well.
Kommentti käyttäjältä davespod 17. February 2011 klo 14.19
The same blogger's critique of OSM can be found here:
http://www.41latitude.com/post/1310985699/openstreetmap-critique
and here:
http://www.41latitude.com/post/1349685626/openstreetmap-critique-2
It sparked considerable discussion on the mailing lists:
http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/Response-to-A-critique-of-OpenStreetMap-td5635020.html#a5635484
http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/Highway-Tagging-Consensus-to-Improve-OSM-and-address-some-of-41-latitude-s-concerns-td5639384.html
http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/A-UK-perspective-on-the-41Latitude-article-td5689937.html
In fact the blogger felt move to respond to some of the emails he received:
http://www.41latitude.com/post/1313261274/osm-response