[OSM-dev] Status of the Mapnik stylesheets

[Derick Rethans]

On Tue, 13 Nov 2012, Paweł Paprota wrote:

> On 11/13/2012 03:48 PM, Simon Legner wrote:
> > 
> > I'd like to find out what the current status of the Mapnik 
> > stylesheets for www.osm.org is. The most recent changes are from 
> > June 2012 [1], and the number of open tickets in TRAC is >400 [2].
> 
> Indeed... I looked at the same thing 2-3 weeks ago and also wondered 
> about status, workflow etc... I'm in no position to help with the 
> styles (I'm no cartographer/designer/whatever) so I dropped it.
> 
> > Who is responsible for incorporating changes? Is some help needed? 
> > How are those changes applied to the main rendering server?
> > 
> 
> This was brought up several weeks ago on the mailing list by Mapbox 
> folks when they tried to learn the very same things (look for 
> "wishlist" threads from October). What is the current status and their 
> plans for working on styling - I don't know.
> 
> > I'd like to see some accepted tagging systems like the public 
> > transport schema [3] be handled by the stylesheet.
> > 
> 
> I'd say the priority should be bringing the main style onto the 
> "pretty" side...

I would rather see as much useful things rendered that make sense for 
*mappers*. Pretty tiles should also be made, but as far as I know, the 
default style that is on openstreetmap.org is for *us* - the people who 
add data.

cheers,
Derick