In which I begrudglingly compare MapCSS and CartoCSS because people keep asking.
I hate this kind of writing - it's annoying to try to describe one bit of software versus another, and this can and will fall out of date every time that somebody makes a big change to their library. But people want it, or whatever, so here it is.
Since CartoCSS and Cascadenik are weird cousins, the big difference is between them and MapCSS.
Let's see, differences:
- CartoCSS is designed for Mapnik. That is, it tries to expose every possible Mapnik style option and ability, and supports every Mapnik datasource.
- MapCSS is designed for OSM. That is, it makes it easy to style based on OpenStreetMap data types, tags, and so on.