On Saturday 23 June 2018, Sven Geggus wrote: > > I'm doing this for German style for more than 2 years now without > that much of a hassle up till this release. > > This will now kill my ability to keep on doing this at least as > roads.mss is concerned!
This is to be expected. You are kind of spoiled because during the last year this is about the only larger technologically more sophisticated change in the style. Discussion of this change can be found in: https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/pull/2640 and discussion leading up to this in: https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/110 The reason for the technological complexity of this and the resulting mangling of the code is the lack of support to render lines with a 2d pattern in Mapnik. I still hope Lucas will write up a few details about the technical approach that would enable you to more easily re-implement this in a different style. Note there have been voices to choose a more conservative approach to rendering unpaved roads in OSM-Carto - like yet another form of dashing in addition to the various dashing types already used in road rendering. There are very good cartographic reasons not to do that though. All in all this is a good example for OSM-Carto being at a crossroads (and having been for quite some time) between staying avant-garde and pushing the boundaries of cartographic design and technology or being satisfied with shuffling the options offered by the cartographic mainstream within the technological framework used - and which, due to Mapnik and CartoCSS being essentially unmaintained, becomes more narrow and limiting every year. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
