[Talk-us] OpenStreetMap Americana - Announcing a new American map style and call for collaborators!

Wed Jan 26 19:37:23 UTC 2022

This work is highly appreciated, thanks for stepping up and leading this Brian, and thanks to everyone else who contributed. The U.S. Highway shields rendering topic has been discussed at least since 2011[1] and it's so great to see it get the traction it deserves.
I would love to see state shields on the map as well--I know this is a pretty monumental task in itself. 
My favorite concurrency example: https://zelonewolf.github.io/openstreetmap-americana/#13.31/39.78954/-86.02657 

[1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/SotM_2011_session:_Shields_Up! -- It looks like Phil's original slippy map has finally gone offline.. A shame, even aside from the highway shield rendering, it was a nice time capsule with the blue highways and the 2011 vintage data.
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  Martijn van Exel
  m at rtijn.org

On Wed, Jan 26, 2022, at 12:19, Brian M. Sperlongano wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I'm pleased to announce the kick-off of the OpenStreetMap Americana project, which aims to develop a new regional map style with cartographic practices that are familiar to users of maps published in the US.  We have a goal to eventually become a part of the OpenStreetMap US web site, similar to other local chapters in Europe and Asia.  This announcement serves as a notice that Americana is "open for business" and welcoming collaborators for a community-developed American-style map.
> 
> Perhaps the most recognizable feature of North American maps is the drawing of our iconic highway shields.  After eight months of work on the underlying infrastructure, the team of Americana collaborators has deployed the first open-source vector-tile renderer to display location-specific, representative highway shields, including up to 6-way concurrencies, rendered along the path of a highway.  We are also rendering the expressway tag, which provides important mapper feedback to those working on the national highway classification project[1].
> 
> While we have a working prototype[2] with these key features, the map is quite incomplete, and we have a lot of work ahead of us to finish rendering the broad range of general purpose map features, flesh out exactly what an "American style" map means, and make it perform well and look beautiful.  I invite all that are interested in collaborating on this new renderer for our national community to join us on Slack at #american-map-style, collaborate on our github[3] and check out our wiki page[4].
> 
> At the risk of missing someone from this list, I would like to acknowledge everyone who had a hand in making this project a reality.  First, a thanks to Phil Gold[5] and subsequently Kevin Kenny[6], who inspired this project with the first Mapnik-based concurrent shield renderer starting back in 2013. Thanks to Zeke Farwell, Adam Franco, Josh Lee, and Martin Machyna for their work in building out the bulk of the code in this style, and to Ariel Kadouri for figuring out how to deploy it.  The technique for rendering concurrent shields in a line along the roadway using formatted text expressions is the brainchild of Minh Nguyễn, and Oliver Wipfli came up with the implementation[7] in MapLibre to allow shields to be rendered upright.  On the back end, thanks to the team at OpenMapTiles, who accepted over 50 PRs for features important to an American style.
> 
> Lastly, thanks to the over 100 mappers dialed into our Slack channel, #american-map-style, who have participated in the many community discussions, made code or artwork contributions, and collaborated on the mapping and tagging fixes needed to the map itself to make this style possible.
> 
> [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States/2021_Highway_Classification_Guidance
> [2] https://zelonewolf.github.io/openstreetmap-americana
> [3] https://github.com/ZeLonewolf/openstreetmap-americana
> [4] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap_Americana
> [5] https://vimeo.com/68097487
> [6] https://kbk.is-a-geek.net/catskills/test4.html
> [7] https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-js/pull/716
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