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
kerosinकडून 17 February 2011, 10:49 लाला अभिप्राय
Nice blogpost. Thanks for posting it here!
Would be interesting to compare the readability to OSM...
liftarnकडून 17 February 2011, 11:36 लाला अभिप्राय
Interesting. Most of the trick could probably quite easily be used with OSM data as well.
davespodकडून 17 February 2011, 14:19 लाला अभिप्राय
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