Christoph Hormann

With #4952 merged i intend to prepare the release soon. I merged #4996 to be included in the release as well. My current perspective for after the release is to...

v5.9.0 is released: * https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/commit/491bd4a4675a94f3950ff45843d0c4696d8ae420 * https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/releases/tag/v5.9.0 * https://github.com/openstreetmap/chef/issues/700 * https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2024-October/031348.html * https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2024-October/088590.html * https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/imagico/diary/405334

We would need to be careful here because it might not be clear what feature the icon applies to, i.e. the pitch itself or the facility the pitch is part...

Thanks. The problem is that turning circles - just like highway polygons (see #4544) - do not currently get rendered according to if they are part of a tunnel or...

This can probably be mitigated to some extent by adjusting the combination of `text-vertical-alignment` and `text-dy` - but it likely cannot be fully avoided - at least not easily.

Thank you for your suggestion. `industrial=*` is primarily used at the moment as a secondary tag to further characterize features with a primary tag `landuse=*` or `man_made=*`. Standalone use exists,...

This is not a forum to discuss what the best way is to map things. But if you want to map the offices of a construction company `office=construction_company` is the...

Based on the current meaning of waterway=canal rendering it wider than stream/ditch/drain and less wide than river is a fairly reasonable idea. Indicating the difference between artificial and natural waterways...

usage=transportation/transmission have only negligible use numbers in combination with waterway=canal. The sad truth is that so far there is no well established supplemental tagging for more precise characterization of artificial...

Seems like a re-surfacing of #4956. Someone will need to rework the font downloads, researching reliable sources, preferably with fallbacks for added robustness. #4893 provides a lot of groundwork already....