[OSM-dev] OpenStreetMap Carto release v4.9.0

[Daniel Koć]

Dear all,

Today, v4.9.0 of the openstreetmap-carto stylesheet (the default
stylesheet on the OSM website) has been released. Once changes are
deployed on the openstreetmap.org it will take couple of days before all
tiles show the new rendering.

Changes include

Major changes
- A bug where closed ways with natural=cliff or natural=tree_row were
not rendering has been fixed. This required fixing a transform bug. The
fix will apply to all objects when they are created in OSM, but there is
no migration for existing databases. Deployments will have to decide if
the effects are serious enough to require them to reload the database.

Changes
- Adding place=square name rendering
- Adding rendering for different types of towers and masts
- Making gardens to use grass color with plant nursery pattern
- Adding rendering for intermittent water bodies
- Give oceans outline and simplify shapefiles on z0-7
- Simplify (generalize) admin borders
- Move natural=grassland and landuse=meadow earlier
- Start rendering aerialway name
- Adding icons for amenity=bbq, amenity=shower, leisure=sauna and
advertising=column
- Adding special icons for shop=dairy, shop=medical_supply and shop=music
- Move amenity=toilets to higher zoom levels
- Fixing some SVG icons artifacts
- Make military=danger_area font dark pink and slanted
- Changing rendering for construction=steps to distinguish it from roads
- Changing label colour of private parking
- Small documentation and code fixes

Thanks to all the contributors for this release, including james2432,
Penegal and jragusa, new contributors.

For a full list of commits, see
https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/compare/v4.8.0...v4.9.0

As always, we welcome any bug reports at
https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues

-- 
"My method is uncertain/ It's a mess but it's working" [F. Apple]