The French style: http://tile.openstreetmap.fr/ (mainly icons as far as I know) The German style: http://openstreetmap.de/karte.html (different rendering technology, different road styles, though they want to convert the renderer (style specification) to the same as osm.org)
As far as I understood some people from France and Germany are working on a vector tile server. Can't find the link to mail in the French mailing list though. regards On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 9:06 AM, Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk> wrote: > With the discussion on a more self contained 'UK' group I'd like to > highlight one area that is becoming perhaps more urgent for some of us, > the idea of a UK style tile set. > > With the current push to make the default mapping more 'google like', > retaining the UK colour coding for roads is something I feel many of us > wish to retain, but there is no need to force that on the rest of the > world. While I've not actually looked, and it's not easy to find them, I > have seen links to other 'local' styles and this is exactly what OSM is > about. > > Some aspects of the proposed changes do make sense, but I feel that > comparisons with google are a little unfair since google still does not > nearly as much low level detail anyway. A single style is never going to > be ideal, and so I'm actually thinking that two or three base tile sets > actually makes a lot more sense. Keeping the UK road colours is the > obvious starting point, > > The other area that I am looking to roll back is some of the agresive > changes to town centres. I'm still getting complaints about where names > now appear on shops, or rather on adjacent shops and tidying this up > probably applies world wide, but the much more abstract layout of > buildings in many UK towns does not lend itself to a style that assumes > a more geometric layout. > > Finally landmarks such as some of the viaducts and other now 'retasked' > structures which are perhaps more prevalent in the UK are an area where > a more local treatment may be more appropriate? > > That the world map is going to evolve on a more generic basis is a given > so I feel now is the time to be looking at a more local alternative. At > one time I did have my own tile server and OSRM routing service running > but it needs more resources than I can put up on my own to be more > generally available. I have space on a site with a large pipe, but I > would prefer to see perhaps a more distributed model where several sites > mirror the same tile set and hopefully historic overlays ... another > area that needs a little more locally based support. > > -- > Lester Caine - G8HFL > ----------------------------- > Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact > L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk > EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ > Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk > Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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