September 29, 2024
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The elections for the board of the OpenStreetMap Foundations are upcoming and the most interesting part of this for the OSMF members has traditionally started with the publications of the self-presentations of the candidates, which happened during the last days. … Continue reading
September 17, 2024
by chris
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Since the previous two blog posts are already quite lengthy as is, i am going to do the overall discussion in a separate post here. I discussed the situation of road rendering in OSM based maps in general already in … Continue reading
September 15, 2024
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In the previous post i explained one of the main design issues of road depiction in OpenStreetMap based maps and identified the most viable approach to address this. Here i want to demonstrate and explain how this can be practically … Continue reading
September 13, 2024
by chris
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When discussing the rendering of roads in detail 3.5 years ago i showed how OpenStreetMap-Carto uses the different options offered by CartoCSS and Mapnik to draw the road network in a consistent fashion but, ultimately, still falls short of this … Continue reading
September 10, 2024
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State of the Map 2024 took place in Nairobi last weekend. I did not attend, although i tried to get an idea by watching some of the video streams. With tried being the operative word here – the streaming infrastructure … Continue reading
September 6, 2024
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Two years ago i showed a new design concept for rendering trees in maps. This used a combination of hand designed components with automatic geometry processing to depict different types of trees of different sizes in a way the symbols … Continue reading