[OSM-talk] Request for feedback: new building colours in openstreetmap-carto

[Matthijs Melissen]

Dear all,

A couple or comments:

- We are aware that not everyone likes the new colours, but the
comments we received (both here and on Github) indicates that a
majority prefers lighter colours.

- Can anyone who dislikes the new building colours please indicate
which hardware you are using when looking at the map? It would be
interesting to see if the problems are worse on certain types of
hardware. It would be even better if you could compare multiple
devices (e.g. desktop and mobile, or desktop and laptop).

- I'd be happy with more customisation of the style.  One of the
explicit design goals of osm-carto is to make the style easily
customizable. I agree it would be nice to have easy customisation
available through osm.org, but I have my hands full on the current
stylesheet already, so it won't be me who will be implementing that.

- Lester, the discussion was not "a couple of days over the holiday
season". My initial request for feedback was at 27 November.

Also I'm sorry if I don't respond to every comment individually. I am
trying to balance the time spend on communicating with the community
and writing code - if I would go into individual discussions with
everyone on the list, I wouldn't be able to write a single line of
code. I hope I'm striking the right balance.

Kind regards,
Matthijs

On 27 November 2014 at 01:16, Matthijs Melissen
<info at matthijsmelissen.nl> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> We are considering to change the colour of buildings in
> openstreetmap-carto, the default rendering on openstreetmap.org.
> Because this change has a significant effect on the looks of the map,
> we would like to consult the community before going ahead with this
> change.
>
> A rendering demo can be found here (left the current rendering, right
> the proposal):
> http://bl.ocks.org/pnorman/raw/c61d6b11193081910866/#15.00/50.0611/19.9393
> http://bl.ocks.org/pnorman/raw/c61d6b11193081910866/#14.00/40.7048/-74.0040
> Please note that only selected regions have been loaded into the demo server.
>
> As can be seen, the new building colour is much lighter. This should
> make the map more pleasant to the eye, as well as make it easier to
> see the road network in areas with many buildings.
>
> More info can be found in the Github issue:
> https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/pull/565. I would
> like to thank Paul Norman and Mateusz Konieczny, who have done the
> majority of the work.
>
> Please let us know what you think of the new rendering, either on
> Github or as a reply to this message.
>
> Kind regards,
> Matthijs