The woodland change looks much better, but would it not be possible to render broadleaved, needleleaved and mixed using different tree images, as seen on other maps? This would, I think, give people more incentive to add this information when mapping woodland.
Regards Tony On 15 August 2015 at 04:27, Paul Norman <penor...@mac.com> wrote: > This email is also in user diary form at osm.org/user/pnorman/diary/35589 > where issue numbers are linked. > > OpenStreetMap Carto 2.33.0 has been released. This release focuses on > cartographic style improvements, but the release notes also include 2.32.0. > > The biggest changes are > > - A randomized symbology for forests for natural=wood and landuse=forest > #1728 #1242 > > A long time in the works, this improvement has finally landed. The two > tags were merged - they are indistinguishable to the data consumer.[1] > A randomized symbology was first suggested by SK53[2] at SOTM-EU 2014, > and this feature would not have happened without his extensive research, > or imagico's tools for creating an irregular but uniformly distributed > and periodic dot pattern[3] > > - Rendering minor roads and service rail later for mid-zoom clarity > #1682 #1692 #1676 #1647 > > As all residential, unclassified, and service roads in a city became > mapped the rendered view became over-crowded, bloblike, and difficult > to read. > > - Unification of footway/path and rendering surface of them > > The mess that is highway=path is well-known[4], and it is necessary > to do some kind of processing as a data consumer. A distinction is > now made between paved and unpaved footways. > > - Rendering of Antartic ice sheets from shapefiles #1540 > > Ice sheets in Antartica are a bit of a special case, and pre-generated > shapefiles are now used > > - Mapnik 3 preperations #1579 > > The style is not yet fullly tested with Mapnik 3 and we don't claim to > support it, but several bugs were fixed. Most of the work was done on > the Mapnik side > > - No longer rendering proposed roads #1663 #1654 > > - Power area colour adjusted #1680 > > - Better place label order #1689 > > - meadow/grassland and orchard/vineyard color unification #1655 > > - Render educational area borders later #1662 > > - New POI icons > > A full list of changes can be found on Github at > https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/compare/v2.31.0...v2.33.0) > > [1]: > https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/647#issuecomment-52816195 > [2]: http://sk53-osm.blogspot.ca/2014/09/woodland-cartography.html > [3]: http://www.imagico.de/map/jsdotpattern.php > [4]: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Richard/diary/20333 > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
