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A general-purpose OpenStreetMap mapnik style, in CartoCSS
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Further clean-up mid zoom levels #3331

Closed matthijsmelissen closed 6 years ago

matthijsmelissen commented 6 years ago

Some ideas to further clean up the mid zoom levels:

Current:

screen shot 2018-08-05 at 23 11 50

Dropping buildings from z13:

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Dropping footways from z13:

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Dropping buildings and footways from z13:

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andrzej-r commented 6 years ago
  1. Buildings - I don't see them as a problem. IMHO all above examples look better with them, but that may be just me. With vector tiles we could remove buildings for rendering efficiency reasons but that's not an issue with raster tiles. We could perhaps use transparency instead of contrast to reveal more of the underlying landuse color (that could also be helpful with tunnels under buildings etc) but I don't think building are currently too prominent.
  2. Paths - I am not a fan of red and blue rendering. It is indeed a bit too prominent at lower zoom levels but that could be avoided by rendering paths in white - less prominent, more consistent with roads, more consistent with other maps.

One more thing: removing information (here: buildings) with an intention of forcing mappers to add alternative information (landuse) is bad. We are an open data project so even a hint of coercion can be very damaging.

matthijsmelissen commented 6 years ago

Thanks for all feedback.

I don't think I'm able to come up with a good idea for cycleways now, so I'm leaving these outside scope for now.