Just wondering because they don’t appear and I think it’s important to have highway labels on maps
Every map decides for itself what it wants to show. You basically have 3 options:
- Ask the people creating the map to include something. This is independent of OSM, you have to find out who that is.
- Create your own map which includes the relevant information. Needs some technical knowledge, though tools are there to help.
- Use a different map. You wouldn’t use a bike router for car navigation. The standard map includes the highway labels.
Which way you choose depends on your use case.
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Thanks do you know how I can find out who makes the map ?
You can get more info here: HOT style - OpenStreetMap Wiki. It also explains some of the rationale behind the map.
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Already asked and answered at https://www.reddit.com/r/openstreetmap/comments/1hd5coe/why_would_they_not_label_interstate_numbers_on/
(little bit of netiquette - if you ask the same question in two places, you should mention that you’ve done so. Otherwise you are wasting people’s time if they answer the question not knowing it’s been answered elsewhere already)
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it is also possible hat roads have names but nobody mapped them so far
in such case (if roads are actually named) names can be mapped
Just wish there was a way to edit it or speak to someone directly. Really sucks I love this map layer but that one issue drives me crazy.
There is - you’ve asked lots of questions and received lots of answers explaining how and why the style was developed, and by whom.
People have been extremely generous in giving you the benefit of the doubt and not assume that you were just “trolling” by asking essentially the same questions again and again. Please don’t abuse that kindness - go through the links in the answers to your previous questions.
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in not getting any answers though from osm itself
“OSM” is not responsible for what users do with the data.
OSM is a community project to collect and structure geographic information and related data. This data can be visualised as a map, but that’s for the users to do. For ease of use, some standard maps are provided on the main osm.org page. Afaik, they are unaltered.
There is, you can fork the project on Github and create your own tiles from there.
You have gotten many answers from the OSM community. I believe they are enough for yourself to figure out a way. If you have any further questions, I’m sure someone here can help you.
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Try googling “Who makes the humanitarian map”.
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I did but I can’t find their emails and osm hasn’t responded to mine
To reiterate; there is no “osm”.
Several different parts of the OpenStreetMap ecosystem are maintained by several different volunteers and/or commercial entities.
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Do you know who I would contact then ?
Hi @Johnny111101 ,
you were in contact with the sysadmin of the OSM France servers, @cquest , where the humantarian map style is hosted:
He gave you the advice what you can do:
You opened not only one but three issues. What about a pull-request with the change that would display the labels you miss?
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A number of people have suggested a pull request, but is the style actually being maintained? If I’m interpreting Github correctly, there has been no activity for a few years. A pending pull request relating to busways doesn’t seem to have received a response. So is there any point in somebody working on a pull request?
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As mentioned previously, a pull request was suggested by the person looking after the hardware, although as you say there are old PRs from a few years ago
It would appear that someone (perhaps the OP here) has created 3 issues there, but based on what we’ve seen so far I suspect that it would take some time (a bit of education or self-learning about how these things work) for the OP here to create a PR.
If someone was really keen to add highway labels to this map style I’d suggest the best way forward would be for someone to fork the style and deploy it somewhere, but that’s likely beyond the OP here, at least for now.
The good news is that there are guides for setting up servers for similar map styles, and once that’s been done it’s possible to use a different style, and to change that different style slightly.
Sightly tangentially, it’d be good to see a guide for “creating a map style that uses the OSMF vector tiles”, because that’s a lower barrier to entry - although even that requires familiarity with at least JSON and Javascript. The relevant documentation is “somewhat challenging”, especially with regards to icons, sprites and fonts, so it absolutely makes sense to experiment with a “simple” style first.
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That’s right, this map style has not been maintained for a couple of years now even if used by many sites and people as the recent tile server outage revealed.
This is a usual story with free/open-source software, same with data and services built on these data like here.
Redesigning the style for vector style is not a straightforward work but it may solve the redering part (no need of a dedicated server to render this style) while not providing a full replacement for the current raster tiles.
What we miss is people with available time (paid or volunteer) to:
- improve the current style (merging PR or more)
- keep-on maintaining the tile server
- create a new similar style for vector tiles
As a volunteer at OSM France, I’m doing my part by maintaning the server.
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It just seems so easy to be added . Would look so great having the highway names wit this layer
If it is so easy to add, then feel free to do so.
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