[OSM-talk] New Google Maps style - interesting cartographic innovation

[Oleksiy Muzalyev]

Using colors like this is an excellent idea, however we shall not rely 
on colors alone as several percent of people cannot distinguish colors 
due to color blindness [1]. Besides, color blindness may develop with an 
advanced age, so no one is color-safe.

We do not hear often about color blindness as people tend not to speak 
about it. But in fact maybe up to ten percent cannot see differences 
between certain colors at all.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness

brgds
O.M.

On 07.08.2016 1:43, Michał Brzozowski wrote:
> There has been an update to Google Maps styling [1] and I have to say,
> they left me impressed.
> The overall look is cleaner, which is very welcome after a series of
> disappointing changes, but the thing I consider very innovative is how
> buildings (and on lower zooms - areas) with lots of "activities" (i.e.
> POIs) are highlighted in beige.
>
> Now, traditional topo maps use building type attribute for this, eg.
> Polish ones use dark brown for public/retail buildings, orange for
> residential, violet for industrial and gray for everything else.
> Our (and I presume Google's no better) building type tagging is pretty
> sparse, so this is a no-go.
>
> I wonder whether somebody could cook up a proof of concept of this for
> OSM styling to see how it would work out. One may play with assigning
> different weights to POIs according to their type or perceived
> importance via Wiki{pedia|data} tags.
>
> Michał
>
> [1] https://maps.googleblog.com/2016/07/discover-action-around-you-with-updated.html
>
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