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<div dir="auto">Hi Mark<br />
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Possibly also relevant - there is work underway to produce an American specific rendering, demo here: <a href="https://zelonewolf.github.io/openstreetmap-americana" target="_blank">https://zelonewolf.github.io/openstreetmap-americana</a> and code here: <a href="https://github.com/ZeLonewolf/openstreetmap-americana/" target="_blank">https://github.com/ZeLonewolf/openstreetmap-americana/</a><br />
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There is discussion around it on the OSMUS Slack in the #american-map-style channel, which is here: <a href="https://osmus.slack.com/" target="_blank">https://osmus.slack.com/</a> (I don’t entirely recall how I signed up, but possibly via this: <a href="https://osmus.slack.com/signup" target="_blank">https://osmus.slack.com/signup</a>).<br />
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Note: I’m not involved in any way, I just noticed it being discussed.<br />
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Best,<br />
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Adam</div>
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<div name="messageReplySection">On 24 Jan 2022, 21:53 +0000, Mark Goodge <mark@good-stuff.co.uk>, wrote:<br />
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On 24/01/2022 19:44, Andy Townsend wrote:<br />
<blockquote type="cite">On 24/01/2022 19:01, Mark Goodge wrote:<br />
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The cost isn't the issue, a least to begin with (I'm not sure how well<br />
it scales under load, and what the implications would be for that). I<br />
have looked at running my own OSM tileserver, and from a sysadmin<br />
perspective, there's nothing prohibitive about that. But the styling<br />
is another issue; I've had a look at OSM Carto and, frankly, it makes<br />
my head hurt even trying to comprehend it. The Switch2OSM<br />
documentation itself isn't particularly complimentary about Carto,<br />
describing it as a compromise and complicated.<br /></blockquote>
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I suspect that I might have written that bit :)<br />
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When Richard set up the switch2osm site initially there was discussion<br />
about what map style would be best to feature. My recollection (and I<br />
could be wrong because it was all a _very_ long time ago) was that he<br />
favoured a simpler style that users could modify easily such as the old<br />
OSM Bright raster style, and I was worried that it there were enough<br />
issues with it (such as rendering everything with a "name" tag as that<br />
name on the map) that it would need significant effort to get to the<br />
point were we could really feature it.<br /></blockquote>
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Actually, a good starting point for a UK style would be the old Carto<br />
style before it was internationalised to match the road colour<br />
conventions adopted by Bing and Google.<br />
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<blockquote type="cite">* as an example, map.atownsend.org.uk costs me < £20 per month, so if<br />
you split the monthly running cost between a few people it's less<br />
than the price of a beer at a monthly OSM meetup.<br /></blockquote>
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What hardware (or VM) spec is that running on?<br /></blockquote>
A Hetzner CX41 (see https://www.hetzner.com/cloud ). If you wanted to<br />
pay a bit less a CX31, would probably work for just GB or UK.<br /></blockquote>
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I presume that memory is the key, here?<br />
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<blockquote type="cite">There was some talk on this list a while back about creating a UK<br />
style. But that seems to have gone quiet. I'd be interested in getting<br />
involved if enough other people wanted to resurrect it.<br /></blockquote>
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Nick Whitelegg did some work at<br />
https://github.com/orgs/osmuk/repositories a few years ago now - see<br />
https://github.com/osmuk/website_experimental has a bit of an<br />
explanation. I'm happy to help with answering questions with map styles<br />
etc. but can't really commit to "site development or maintenance" - but<br />
I bet that there are lots of people on this list who do that as a day<br />
job and would be more than willing to help!<br /></blockquote>
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I'll take a look at some of those, when time permits, ta.<br />
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Mark<br />
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