Power=* features

[sabas]

Power distribution networks are missing. power=pole/tower as pois (tilezen has this) power=cable/line as line (not in tilezen) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Power_lines

Example rendering http://sabas.land/power/#8/45.116/9.945 http://sabas.land/power/style.json

[lukasmartinelli]

Are those commonly displayed in maps? Seems like more appropriate for thematic maps than base maps.

Pole/towers are landmarks though and perhaps make sense.

[sabas]

Just on OSM Carto and on Humanitarian. Power lines also could be used as orientation.

Is there a case study for a derived map yet? I imagine it would need (reading from openmaptiles and openmaptiles-tools repos):

• package a layer as the building example
• tweak the tileset
• modify the style to consider the additional layer

It would be better to generate the tweaked vector tiles or generate vector tiles with only the custom layers and then merge with existing vector tiles?

Another question: it would make sense to collect and share layers somewhere centralised?

[stirringhalo]

It would be better to generate the tweaked vector tiles or generate vector tiles with only the custom layers and then merge with existing vector tiles?

That's largely up to you. We don't have a tool for appending vector tiles, but that wouldn't be too difficult. It's simply binary concatenation which I've toyed with for merging layers but it would be a pain on a planet scale.

I imagine that if there's enough interest, and the cartography isn't overwhelming, it might get merged here but I don't know official @openmaptiles plans.

Another question: it would make sense to collect and share layers somewhere centralised?

Couple thoughts:

1. Have your own layer on github and we can link to it so others can find it. There's definitely a desire to build an open ecosystem around OpenMapTiles!
2. We could have another repo with a more disorganized set of layers, but the question of who will curate comes up

[lcalisto]

Is there any update on this? Having this would be very interesting.

[ache051]

Was sifting through and just came to this issue. I made a branch here that incorporates power facilities in polygons, lines and points. If anybody thinks it is worthwhile then use it!

[Falke-Design]

@ache051 please add it as PR maybe it will be merged

[ache051]

@ache051 please add it as PR maybe it will be merged

Thanks @Falke-Design. Just did that and will see how it goes. I still have to modify a GL style for it though.