[OSM-talk] map styles: Default OSM vs Google Maps

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Currently I am working on a GSoC project - improvement of styling of
roads and paths in openstreetmap-carto, the default OSM map style.

I started from researching how other map styles are designed. I would
welcome comments and feedback as it would allow to notice my biases.
Feedback on general ideas will hopefully reduce amount of time needed
to rework and tweak style that I will produce.

The first compared map style is probably the most popular one, used by
Google maps. I published results of this analysis at
https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Mateusz%20Konieczny/diary/34957