Here are 4 screenshots of (approximately) the same area in Schwarzwald in south-western Germany, rendered by four different #OpenStreetMap renderings.
-
Here are 4 screenshots of (approximately) the same area in Schwarzwald in south-western Germany, rendered by four different #OpenStreetMap renderers.
What to look for: Villages, hamlets, woods, meadows, scrub, streams, mauntain peaks (and saddles
), highways, roads, tracks and (very little/few) paths. Presence, recognicability, visibility, contrast.1) OSM Pastel - my own vector style, OMT tiles from #openFreeMap.
2) OpenStreetMap Carto - the default, raster, classic OpenStreetMap.
3) OpenMapTiles OMT vector - the standard vector style for #OpenMaptiles vector tiles, looking a lot like Carto.
4) OpenFreeMap Bright - the style from which I derived OSM Pastel.Notice the value of SDF icons in OSM Pastel.
Some of the dilemmas of cartography clearly shows in the differences
