[OSM-talk] New tile rendering (Live Worldwide)

[Grant Slater]

On 5 August 2013 20:06, Christoph Hormann <chris_hormann at gmx.de> wrote:
> On Monday 05 August 2013, Grant Slater wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>> In addition to new hardware, the rendering server also uses the new
>> “openstreetmap-carto” stylesheet. This is a complete re-write of the
>> old XML stylesheet to use CartoCSS, making it easier for our
>> cartographers to work with. The style is designed to look as similar
>> as possible to the old XML stylesheet.
>
> I am especially impressed that this also finally gives us a coastline
> update on openstreetmap.org - after more than half a year. :-)
>

Not live yet but the coastlines will automatically be updated weekly.
Likely 2am UTC Saturday.
The updated processed coastlines come from:
http://openstreetmapdata.com/ thanks to Jochen Topf.

/ Grant
Part of OSM sysadmin team