[OSM-talk] New Mapnik Style

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On the whole I prefer no casing, it does mean the actual road colours
need to be stronger to avoid the washed out look..

Have a nice day,

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 6:49 PM, Chris Hill <chillly809 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Patrick Weber wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Just noticed that the Wednesday Mapnik update has introduced a
>> considerable change in cartography style. Seems like lots of changes
>> have been applied, which has considerably changed the look of the
>> Mapnik Layer. I wondered if there is a summary of changes explained
>> somewhere, and even maybe some of the motivations for those changes?
>>
>> I really like some of the new POI icons, which seem to be more
>> consistent now.
>>
>> I am not so shure about the rendering of roads (primary,secondary) at
>> Zoom layers 10-11-12. Overall, the contrast of map features seems
>> reduced to me. While this can be a good thing if you want to overlay
>> other layers of information, on its own, I think it makes it less easy
>> on the eye in terms of making out features and so on.
>>
>> Anyone else feels like that?
> I agree that some of the roads look washed-out.  I think part of the
> problem is that there doesn't seem to be a casing any more for trunk,
> primary and secondary.  I do like the icons.
>
> Cheers, Chris
>
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