[OSM-talk] Planned water color change on osm-carto

[Daniel Koć]

W dniu 22.09.2016 19:48, Pierre Béland napisał(a):
> That lengthy discussion mentions that contrast is not high enough with
> surrounding forest. The question is Should we modify lake or forest
> color?

This was just a starting point, which pushed me to think about the 
bigger problem.

I simply dislike current water color on osm-carto and find it to be a 
source of some visibility problems. I've also noticed that nobody in our 
lengthy discussion even defended this color, so I guess it's not only 
me...

> In forestry areas like north of Norway and Canada, it is difficult to
> find features unless you know where they are and zoom-in enough. I
> have edited a lot in north of Quebec, Canada and often observe this.

It's hard, and probably impossible, to make good universal map of the 
whole world. Especially trying to satisfy our set of goals:

https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/blob/master/CARTOGRAPHY.md#purposes

So we try to make this style at least decent, as much as it's possible. 
But what works in the big city, might be simply annoying in remote 
forest land - and vice versa. Some kind of detecting environment context 
(like residential/outdoor) would be useful, but we still don't know how 
to do it in practice:

https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/1957

However that would let us render all the features earlier/more strong in 
Norway or Canada forest.

Another approach - and it's perfectly doable now - might be different 
rendering forest on lower zoom levels, like here:

https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/2194#issuecomment-239697958

But maybe just changing the forest colors would work - who knows? If you 
have some propositions, just let us know.

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