open street map trunk roads color

[Andy Allan]

On 2 February 2014 10:21, Francesco Bettella <checco74 at icloud.com> wrote:

> now to the point. if I may suggest a possible improvement, I find that the color of trunk roads (green) often does not contrast well with the background. I would rather use something like purple or violet, which I think would also fit better into the progression from yellow (secondary roads) to blue (motorways).

Hi Francesco,

This list is regarding the ruby-on-rails code that powers the website
and the API. The software that creates the map tiles from OSM data are
completely different projects and off-topic for this list. The
component responsible for the colours of the features on the map is
known as the stylesheet - each map has their own stylesheet and the
one for the 'Standard' map layer can be found at

https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto

The developers of openstreetmap-carto (that's me, as it happens) are
aware of the problem of viewing trunk roads against many of the
background colours :-)

Cheers,
Andy