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a list @systemed and i came up with

Mapnik style improvements

labels

  • label colors associated with features
  • for admin boundaries &c. - don't show a label if we're not rendering the actual boundary
  • nicer font - plenty of free/open options with decent glyph coverage

landuse

  • less garrish land use colors, mix in land color
  • natural reserve: just no.
  • one hue per feature class / only differ parks vs pitch via lightness + saturation

    gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto#60

  • show farmland at high zoom if at all

roads

  • private roads - kill the salmon lozenges ++++ denote access via casing: solid = standard access dashed _ . _ . = permissive dashed _ _ _ _ = private/no for paths (which are uncased): we could use _ _ _ _ for accessible, . . . . for private or we could just use a light grey for private
  • highway=trunk should stand out against green fills (e.g. woodland)
  • less huge shields?
  • less fat tertiary ++
  • sort out service roads - right now they magically appear thick/early if they're private
  • cycleways visible at z<=14
  • sheilds same color as road fill
  • prefer opacity to show tunnels (rather than dashes)
  • colour hierarchy needs some thought - at some zooms (e.g. z12) primary red looks stronger than trunk green

placenames

  • clear hierarchy, e.g. z12/z13 towns should be bigger than villages
  • generally embiggen
  • darker, more contrasty village/hamlet

other stuff

  • maritime borders are BAD (no other map in the world shows them except at high zoom) - tagged with maritime=yes < we should just do darken(@water,5%) and never look back
  • railways look too similar to unclassified roads at some zooms
  • why do some buildings have stroke and others don't?!
  • associate line-colors w/ polygon fills // similar ^^
  • parking (P P P P P P)
  • remove dashed lines where possible:
    • marina stroke
    • others?

meta

  • more comments! weeee
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