September 25, 2023
by chris
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Earlier this year i wrote a bit about map style licensing. The OSMF has just added a new featured tile layer on the openstreetmap.org website – and i wanted to quickly point out an interesting quirk in that regard here. … Continue reading
September 16, 2023
by chris
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I have in the past explained on several occasions that the free and open-source software (FOSS) tools available to map designers developing rules for automatically rendered maps are severely lacking and that it would be of high importance for the … Continue reading
September 14, 2023
by chris
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Supplementing the previous post about the extreme rain and resulting flooding in the eastern Mediterranean i also prepared an image from the other side of the sea at the north African coast in Libya, where the same storm that caused … Continue reading
September 12, 2023
by chris
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A few days ago a storm has brought extraordinarily intense rain to some parts of the Eastern Mediterranean, leading to substantial flooding in some regions. I prepared a rendering of a satellite image recorded on September the 10th of the … Continue reading
September 3, 2023
by chris
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I like to make another note on OSM-Carto here. Background is that there is another wave of negativity (aiming to find a relatively neutral, yet at least a bit descriptive term here) being expressed by some people from the OSM … Continue reading
September 1, 2023
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I have finally gotten around completing the modularization of my Alternative Colors map style and i want to introduce that here. I already discussed this briefly in context of the new symbol and label rendering system. Introducing that change depended … Continue reading