[OSM-talk] openstreetmap-carto upgrade, new features, interesting issues

[Clifford Snow]

Thanks Paul and to all those that are working on this.

Clifford


On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Paul Norman <penorman at mac.com> wrote:

> After a delay for hardware reasons (a drive having issues in a rendering
> server), the "Standard" stylesheet on OpenStreetMap.org has been
> upgraded to v2.20.0 of openstreetmap-carto. As always, a full list of
> changes can be found at github, via
> https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-
> carto/compare/v2.18.0...v2.20.0
>
> Significant changes include
>
> * Splitting ref tags to render refs as multi-line shields. This
>   rendering is probably the best we can do until Mapnik 3 becomes
>   common (#750)
> * Rendering crossroad names, a feature common in parts of Asia (#813)
> * Steps to fix the cyan from small water bodies at low zoom. This should
>   also stop over-representing water at low zooms. (#878)
> * Migrating the last of the issues from the old style over from trac
> * Adjusting zoom levels where features are displayed to be more consistent
> * Improved ordering of POIs (#860)
> * Bugfixes
>
> A couple more interesting issues open include
>
> * Ways to move away from the .mml format. We are hitting limitations with
>   the JSON layers file causiung difficult merge conflicts, as well as
>   generally being a pain to edit, and are looking at alternatives:
> https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/711
>
> * Dealing with broken boundaries where the ways lack admin_level and
>   boundary tags. Worldwide coverage is reasonable, but some countries
>   are missing a lot of data, principally Poland, Azerbaijan, Uganda,
>   and some untouched TIGER data:
> https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-
> carto/issues/344#issuecomment-49535342
>
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