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 29, 2024
by chris
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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
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