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Re:The current state of map design in OpenStreetMap by stevage on Saturday April 20, 2024 @07:16PM (#40101838)
I work full time in web mapping. IMHO the ugly OSM style and its lack of innovation held back adoption of OSM severely for years.
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Re:The current state of map design in OpenStreetMap by RicoElectrico on Saturday April 20, 2024 @07:20PM (#40101860)
Do you mean the early-2010s era style? Sure that one was quite ugly.
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Re:The current state of map design in OpenStreetMap by jwagenet on Saturday April 20, 2024 @10:41PM (#40102788)
The current style on https://www.openstreetmap.org/ basically looks the same as I remember it in ~2010, and is quite ugly compared to Apple Maps and even new google maps.
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Re:The current state of map design in OpenStreetMap by nicoburns on Saturday April 20, 2024 @10:46PM (#40102806)
Or even something like OrganicMaps which runs on OSM data
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Re:The current state of map design in OpenStreetMap by RicoElectrico on Sunday April 21, 2024 @06:25AM (#40104534)
No, it does not look the same as in 2010. Your memory is failing you.
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Re:The current state of map design in OpenStreetMap by moltonel3x on Sunday April 21, 2024 @12:24PM (#40106961)
That's very subjective, I find the Google style barely usable compared to OSM carto. No experience with Apple.
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Re:The current state of map design in OpenStreetMap by TrickyFoxy on Sunday April 21, 2024 @03:55AM (#40103937)
How did this stop you from deploying your own tile server with your own style?
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Re:The current state of map design in OpenStreetMap by stevage on Monday April 22, 2024 @12:51AM (#40111491)
First, my remark is about the impact on the adoption of OpenStreetMap in general, not my personal usage of it.

And second - it did not stop me from doing that, but it was extremely difficult, and took months of effort. I built a tool to set up a server with all the components required to download the data, load it into PostGIS, style it with Tilemill and generate and serve tiles: https://github.com/stevage/saltymill

So I find your comment quite disingenuous.

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