User:CKoerner (WMF)/Map style changes

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Maps changes[edit]

Hello, I am Paul Norman, a contractor working with the Maps team on Discovery at improving the Wikimedia map styles, infrastructure, and other map-related tasks. My background is as an OpenStreetMap developer, and I am a maintainer of the OpenStreetMap Carto style, the default on osm.org, as well as many other components in a standard OSM map rendering setup.

As part of https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153282 a new style for Wikimedia maps is being developed, and I've loaded the whole planet on one of my servers as a test and demo.

The demo is available at http://legolas.paulnorman.ca:6789/, and through "Compare" on the right-hand side of the interface you can compare it with the current Wikimedia style, OpenStreetMap Carto, and lots of others. Some other things to be aware of when comparing are:

  • The map is displayed with Kosmtik, a design tool with minimal caching, and it might be restarted while I'm working on it.
  • Even though the server is faster than production, it may appear slower because it doesn't have everything cached.
  • The OSM data on the server is normally within a day of the latest data.

Some of the more noticeable style changes are

  • Road colours are different, helping view the overall layout of the city.
  • There are fewer cases of subtly different shades of green.
  • Bridges and multi-level road constructions are now handled properly, which should make some areas easier to figure out.

I am particularly interested in feedback on

Feedback is welcome, either here, through Phabricator tasks, or by IRC in #wikimedia-interactive on freenode.

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