October 24, 2023
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I have written about the mapping of the physical geography of coasts in OpenStreetMap before several times. However, when i see people discussing coastal mapping these days and editing the OpenStreetMap wiki i still frequently get the impression that – … Continue reading
October 9, 2023
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In the previous post i discussed how a relatively simple feature addition to Mapnik called anchors, which allows conditionally connecting the rendering of some visual elements to that of other elements in the map in a freely customizable way, can … Continue reading
October 7, 2023
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I could not be at the Karlsruhe Hack Weekend this time, but i did some hacking work during that and the following week i wanted to write about here. Back in May i discussed in depth the problem of visualizing … Continue reading
September 25, 2023
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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
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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 3, 2023
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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
July 26, 2023
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I am pleased to here introduce a new satellite image product that i have been working on for a few months. Development of this has been co-financed by Geofabrik. They are going to offer tile services for web maps based … Continue reading
July 26, 2023
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There has been quite a bit of fuzz in the OSM community recently (like here – warning: link goes to patronizing and broken web interface) because one of the image layers with semi-global coverage that had so far been widely … Continue reading
July 5, 2023
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In this series of blog posts (see part 1 and part 2) i have so far discussed the limitations of current digital map design frameworks regarding the use of line signatures compared to what was state of the art in … Continue reading