March 5, 2025
by chris
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I wrote a comment today on the OSM-Carto issue tracker that i think should get some broader exposure: As many know OSM-Carto has the most sophisticated system of road rendering of all operational OSM based maps. Its complexity allows us … Continue reading
November 28, 2024
by chris
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This post adds another chapter to my previous series of posts on line signatures in maps. Back in the first part of the series i explained and illustrated how the sophisticated techniques in using line signatures in pre-digital maps have … Continue reading
November 1, 2024
by chris
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In addition to the point barrier symbols i also re-designed and extended quite a few of the existing symbols in the style for human built structures of all kinds. Starting point was that i wanted to port back some of … Continue reading
October 25, 2024
by chris
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Just wanted to share an observation about public communication of the OpenStreetMap Foundation from the last year: What do these all have in common? That they are not based on OpenStreetMap data. I have written about the practical problems of … Continue reading
October 23, 2024
by chris
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I recently worked on a number of map design matters in my OSM-Carto derivative, which i have not discussed here on the blog yet. Much of this is related to point symbols, with – so far – a thematic focus … Continue reading
October 17, 2024
by chris
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We have made a new OSM-Carto release that finally includes a solution for one of our oldest issues – the access restriction rendering on roads. And i want to make a few additional comments here beyond what i wrote in … 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
by chris
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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 6, 2024
by chris
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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