Christoph Hormann

This is similar to #4662 - discussion there is largely also relevant here. `highway=bus_stop` + `ref=*` has 637k uses `highway=bus_stop` + `local_ref=*` has 135k uses and there does not appear...

> how that would avoid problem of "someone broke coastline, Americas are now displayed as flooded" ? The idea here would be - as mentioned - _local, tiled processing of...

Another thing the OSMF could provide is a mirror for the external dependencies this style uses. This are in particular: * the _preprocessed coastline and icesheet files_ (sourced from osmdata.openstreetmap.de...

Assuming this is about `historic=wayside_shrine` https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Ahistoric%3Dwayside_shrine The problem here is that the English language term _shrine_ is used both for things that are by convention tagged `historic=wayside_shrine` and things that...

About 4.6 percent of `natural=water` features have an ele tag. But probably a huge percentage of that are from imports. For differentiating water area rendering by waterbody type see #3895,...

> Are these actually useful cases? The main use of oneway footway is surely to manage traffic volumes, which shouldn't be an issue for private access? This is a common...

> Use a lighter shade of shop / office colour for dot and any name We already use that for access restricted POIs so it would be confusing. > A...

I would like to emphasize that the ideas @kocio-pl is presenting here are not a consensus position of the maintainers of this style. We have briefly touched this topic in...

For clarification - with: > Personally and from a design perspective i think a fresh start as with the change from Mapnik XML to CartoCSS would - even if it...

@systemed - in principle i am with you here, back in 2015 i called this [establishing a middle layer between mapping and rendering](http://blog.imagico.de/innovation-and-flexibility-in-the-openstreetmap-project/). But there is a very strong risk...