[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] Dark Mode for maps (Issue #5328)

[Andy Allan]

> The map is like a photo, and any photo-viewing applications display photos the same way regardless of whether they are in dark or light mode.

It's an interesting viewpoint, but I think of it differently. I think a user interface has text, icons and areas of colour, and maps are a bit like that too. So when a user interface has white text on a dark background, and brightly coloured icons with dark areas around them, then I would expect a map embedded in that interface to look similar. Maybe it's just my line of work that makes me think like that. I often do custom cartography for companies where they want their map to reflect the rest of the colours used on their websites, so if for example they use red text and a certain green in their corporate colour scheme, then I would use red text and see if that green can be incorporated on the map too.

So I would expect a map on a website to be similar to the UI, while I wouldn't expect a photo to look similar to the UI. But again, maybe I'm more used to that, and other people are more used to seeing maps look exactly the same (e.g. embedded Google maps or OpenStreetMap embeds) and that don't fit in with the rest of the website they are being used on.

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