[Announce] New tile rendering (Live Worldwide)

Grant Slater openstreetmap at firefishy.com
Mon Aug 5 13:41:39 UTC 2013


Hi OpenStreetMappers,

The default OpenStreetMap.org "standard" map was switched across to a
new rendering server setup over the last weekend.

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.

Andy Allan presented a great talk at State of the Map US conference
describing the reasons for re-writing the stylesheet:
http://stateofthemap.us/saturday.html#schedule/saturday/putting-the-carto-into-openstreetmap-cartography
Andy will present a follow-up at State of the Map next month.
http://2013.stateofthemap.org/

The "openstreetmap-carto" stylesheet is maintained here:
https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto
The "openstreetmap-carto" is a good base for creating custom styles,
and should be much easier to work with. If you want to help improve
the style, or add new features, please fork it and contribute pull
requests!

Please support OSM’s server hardware fundraising drive:
http://donate.openstreetmap.org/server2013/

Kind regards
 Grant Slater
 Part of the OSM Sysadmin Team



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