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
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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
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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
April 20, 2024
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After having looked at the history of digital map design in general in the first part of this short series and at the current situation of map design in OpenStreetMap in the second part, i am now, in this last … Continue reading
April 18, 2024
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In the previous post i discussed a bit the history of digital map design, in particular also outside of OpenStreetMap. I also wrote in the past about the history of OpenStreetMap Carto, the cartographic face of OpenStreetMap and without doubt … Continue reading
April 16, 2024
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Regular readers of this blog know that i have in the past pointed out repeatedly and with strong emphasis that map design is a vital component in the cross cultural communication within the OpenStreetMap community. Accordingly the ability to further … Continue reading
April 11, 2024
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In this post i am going to introduce what i have been working on at the last Karlsruhe Hack Weekend in terms of map design and some further work i did continuing that work in the weeks afterwards. What i … Continue reading
January 15, 2024
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Back in July i introduced the Musaicum EU-plus – a 10m resolution satellite image mosaic of Europe. I have now finalized two additional variants of this image that i would like to introduce here. Both of them are fairly specialized … Continue reading
December 27, 2023
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While working on the rendering of parking features that i discussed in the previous post i also came to implement some features and address some problems that are not strictly about parking but design wise related. And those i want … Continue reading
December 24, 2023
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In the previous post i introduced the basic concepts of how parking infrastructure is mapped in OpenStreetMap and how this is so far shown in most maps. I also discussed that there is an extensive spectrum of secondary tags used … Continue reading