[OSM-dev] Status of the Mapnik stylesheets

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2012/11/13 Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu>:
> Well maybe not... We don't actually want every random POI icon that a user
> submits to be merged willy nilly - we want somebody to apply some
> cartographic thought when choosing what to merge.


That is an important point. Developing a map style is not completely
comparable to writing a software application. On the other hand with
the end of osmarender there is no real comunity style sheet any more
in development. Something less aimed at consistency or beauty, but
rather a patch work of the ideas of dozens of crazy mappers ;-) It
would be nice if we could have both: the official mapnik style with
cartographic thought and reduced display of features and a branch
which is more a laboratory of different ideas. Many of the rarely used
features wouldn't actually clutter the map if they were rendered, and
there is still quite some important stuff missing which normally would
appear on a map, for instance city gates (names), towers, castles
(icon) etc.

cheers,
Martin