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
OpenStreetMap
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
Reäksje fan kerosin op 17 febrewaris 2011 om 10.49 oere
Nice blogpost. Thanks for posting it here!
Would be interesting to compare the readability to OSM...
Reäksje fan liftarn op 17 febrewaris 2011 om 11.36 oere
Interesting. Most of the trick could probably quite easily be used with OSM data as well.
Reäksje fan davespod op 17 febrewaris 2011 om 14.19 oere
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