Hi,
some time ago, I discused with Kay ( http://parking.openstreetmap.de/ ) that it would be nice to have some kind of rendered base layer without streets. That would give the overlay-creators much more flexibility to design maps.
Right now, it is for example impossible to un-highlight the prominent rendering of motorways which are less important for bicycle maps.
We did not yet discuss which elements should always be rendered, but I think for a start that would be landuse=, natural=, building=...
Any coments, why that would be a good/bad idea? :)
Regards, Thomas