[DCKing]

The screenshot they posted on top of the blog site is very illustrative. Although I may be used to the "Google Maps look", the OSM map displayed there is much harder to understand. I can't put my finger on it exactly, but there's too much color and detail I'm not interested in when looking at a map. This feeling does not occur to me when I use Bing Maps or Here Maps either (and I have used these quite a bit in the past).

Let's hope the increased use of the incredibly detailed and free OSM data will one day lead to better applications that make use of it. User experience comes first.

[Vik1ng]

MapQuest Open is probably the style you are looking for. You can even select that as a layer on openstreetmap.org

http://tools.geofabrik.de/mc/#14/52.5147/13.3899&num=4&mt0=m...

[hnha]

that style was never meant for end-users! It is dense so it can show a lot of features and please the contributors.

[Brakenshire]

Yeah, the actual style they use for the navigation app is shown in the next picture down, and is far more sparse.