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 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
by chris
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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
August 27, 2023
by chris
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A bit less than two years ago the OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSMF) started centrally imposing behavior regulation on OSMF provided communication channels – channels which were previously largely individually self governed by their users. Originally this applied only on two mailing … Continue reading
July 26, 2023
by chris
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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
July 3, 2023
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In this second part of my short series of blog posts on using line signatures in digital maps (see first part) i want to introduce some work i had partly already done some time ago at the Karlsruhe Hack Weekend … Continue reading
July 1, 2023
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This blog post is the first part of a short series of blog posts discussing the use of lines in maps, in particular of more complex line signatures. Let us first consider lines as a micro-element in map design, which … Continue reading
May 17, 2023
by chris
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I have a significant backlog now of changes i made on the alternative-colors style that i have not discussed here yet. This blog post is about the largest and most significant of these changes, related to the way point symbols … Continue reading