See also https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/1176 that proposes adding buildings with historic=castle to major buildings.
Currently only buildings with place_of_worship are recognized as major and are rendered with special style (=darker). 2015-01-02 18:17 GMT+01:00 Matthijs Melissen <[email protected]>: > On 27 November 2014 at 01:16, Matthijs Melissen > <[email protected]> wrote: > > We are considering to change the colour of buildings in > > openstreetmap-carto, the default rendering on openstreetmap.org. > > Because this change has a significant effect on the looks of the map, > > we would like to consult the community before going ahead with this > > change. > > I would like to thank everyone for their feedback, either here or on > Github. The new style has been accepted with some improvements, and is > about to be deployed. > > We have changed some aspects of the rendering as the result of your > suggestions. In particular, we made the buildings a bit darker on zoom > levels up to zoom 14, and we shifted the colour to colour that is more > gray rather than brownish. > > There are still a couple of minor issues of which we are aware, such > as the rendering of buildings on top of barracks. We will keep working > on solving these. > > We also haven't taken a definite decision on whether to render > churches darker or not. It is clear that opinions diverge on this > topic. We might reconsider the decision to render churches darker in > the future. > > -- Matthijs > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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