diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index e66cfa097..68d048590 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,33 +1,22 @@ -# OpenStreetMap Americana +# OpenStreetMap Americana on AARoads -_A quintessentially American map style_ [🗺 View the map](https://zelonewolf.github.io/openstreetmap-americana/) +_A quintessentially American map style_ [🗺 View the map](https://aaroads-wiki.github.io/openstreetmap-americana/) -Americana map style logo +Americana map style logo > _The United States of America is such a glorious mess of contradiction, such a crazy quilt of competing themes, such a fecund mishmash of people and ideas, that defining us is pretty much pointless. There is, of course, a kind of faded notion of "Americana", one that concerns Route 66, diners, freak rock formations, and the like—but even in its halcyon days this "roadside attraction" version of America was never an accurate or nuanced distillation of our massively complicated culture._
-Hampton Sides, [Americana: Dispatches from the New Frontier]() (2004)
-The purpose of the Americana style is to: +The [AARoads Wiki](https://wiki.aaroads.com/) features this fork of [OpenStreetMap Americana](https://github.com/zelonewolf/openstreetmap-americana/) in [countless infoboxes and other contexts](https://wiki.aaroads.com/wiki/AARoads:Maps), making it easy for visitors to find their bearings as they read the mellifluous article text. Americana was chosen for its reliance on freely licensed, community-maintained OpenStreetMap data, its use of modern map technology, and its adherence to a visual style that North American roadgeeks would feel right at home in. -- Promote collaboration and common purpose in OpenStreetMap’s American mapping community -- Express the American experience through cartography, taking inspiration from the familiar features of North American paper maps -- Challenge the status quo by showcasing innovation and invention - -Americana has demonstrated or pioneered several cartographic techniques of importance to Americans that we hope will someday become commonplace among OpenStreetMap-based map styles: - -- Nuanced line styles help you distinguish roads, raiload tracks, and waterways based on a variety of intuitive characteristics. -- Highway routes are identified by shields that resemble the signs on the road, with special support for roads that carry multiple routes concurrently. -- Place labels throughout the world appear in both your preferred language and the local language, reflecting linguistic diversity both in the U.S. and abroad. -- A dynamic legend communicates these design choices intuitively, regardless of the visual language you’re accustomed to. - -We do this proudly in an open source project using vector tile technology. +This fork retains Americana’s characteristic shields but tweaks the colors to match [a color scheme for static maps](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_U.S._Roads/Maps_task_force#Standards) that the AARoads Wiki’s predecessor, the English Wikipedia’s WikiProject U.S. Roads, [adopted in 2006](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_U.S._Roads/Maps_task_force/Archive_1#Voting) with minor subsequent adjustments. ## How to use -You can install the OpenStreetMap Americana package and [deploy it anywhere](CONTRIBUTING.md#Production%20builds) as a static webpage. For your convenience, we’ve deployed it [on GitHub Pages](https://zelonewolf.github.io/openstreetmap-americana/). Click the Legend button to learn the meaning of each symbol, line, and color based on the features currently visible on the map. +You can install the OpenStreetMap Americana package and [deploy it anywhere](CONTRIBUTING.md#Production%20builds) as a static webpage. For your convenience, we’ve deployed it [on GitHub Pages](https://aaroads-wiki.github.io/openstreetmap-americana/). Click the Legend button to learn the meaning of each symbol, line, and color based on the features currently visible on the map. -The style tries to label places in [your browser’s preferred language](https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-lang-priorities). To change this preference, consult your browser’s documentation: [Chrome](https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/173424), [Firefox](https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/use-firefox-another-language), [Safari for macOS](https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/change-the-system-language-mh26684/mac), [Safari for iOS](https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204031). You can also override this preference by adding `&language=` to the URL, followed by a comma-separated list of [IETF language tags](https://www.w3.org/International/articles/language-tags/). For example, here’s a map labeled [in Portuguese, falling back to Spanish](https://zelonewolf.github.io/openstreetmap-americana/#language=pt,es). If we don’t have the name of a place in any of your preferred languages, the style shows the name in the local language as a last resort. +The style tries to label places in [your browser’s preferred language](https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-lang-priorities). To change this preference, consult your browser’s documentation: [Chrome](https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/173424), [Firefox](https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/use-firefox-another-language), [Safari for macOS](https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/change-the-system-language-mh26684/mac), [Safari for iOS](https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204031). You can also override this preference by adding `&language=` to the URL, followed by a comma-separated list of [IETF language tags](https://www.w3.org/International/articles/language-tags/). For example, here’s a map labeled [in Portuguese, falling back to Spanish](https://aaroads-wiki.github.io/openstreetmap-americana/#language=pt,es). If we don’t have the name of a place in any of your preferred languages, the style shows the name in the local language as a last resort. ## Contributor’s guide