Christoph Hormann

I have created a new https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/labels/layering label to collect the issues that are related to the layer structure and order in the style.

> > If we'd now add that for bridges vs. buildings but not for bridges vs. roads (which is the massively more common case) or for bridges vs. water polygons...

I would consider this a sensible order under the premise that the layers themselves are as they are. But i am not tied to this - any arguments why a...

`carto_anchors` is the name of the `anchors_table` used by the [viewpoints query](https://github.com/imagico/osm-carto-alternative-colors/blob/master/layers/viewpoints.mml). The `anchors_table` is a temporary table through which the anchors data in the modified mapnik is made available...

I have so far not used my modified Mapnik with the C++ bindings, only with the Python bindings. You will definitely need to link renderd against the modified Mapnik. The...

> I was hoping not to have this "for testing" but to actually have a useable map/tileserver. I understand that this is the goal. But the style is an experimental...

I had forgotten to push the latest change to mapnik, this is available now in https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/commit/fbe6afe07437311db4ec19d82e4ef8bf5fcd9e69 This regards a change i have not yet discussed on the blog. Alternatively you...

There is currently no specific decision concerning this were we lack consensus. So far we lack a concrete proposal in the form of a concrete code change how this can...

Note the linked to case (https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/699646354) is a great example of how this well meaning tagging idea is unfortunately quite likely to badly dilute the existing semantics of waterways by...

Unfortunately this turned out nearly exactly as prediced above in https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/3865#issuecomment-528085488 - as an umbrella tag for the linear mapping of any and all bodies of water with some kind...