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Discussion on the Openstreetmap service that has the most open map data that began in 2004.

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OpenStreetMap's "default" renderer, Carto, is getting rendering support for street lamps! (lemmy.world)
submitted 22 hours ago by TheTechnician27@lemmy.world to c/osm@feddit.uk
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This pull request was merged a couple weeks ago that subtly renders street lamps as "a simple dot with halo". Stable versions of Carto seem to be released roughly twice a year, and this one just missed the latest cutoff (v6.1.0 was released three weeks ago). Still, if you don't typically add street lamps because they don't show up on e.g. Carto, now's a good time so they show up on the next release.

For those unfamiliar with the name, Carto is the default rendering style you see at openstreetmap.org.

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[–] BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml 6 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Fuck yeah, I mapped dozens of them at my old apartment just for completeness, I can't wait to see what it looks like with them all.

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml 4 points 17 hours ago

I mean yeah you can visualize any data in osm with a custom map, but I mean I can't wait to see what it looks like in the default map, so I can see how other people who aren't using custom views or have explicitly enabled stuff I've edited see my edits.