It’s always good to have different map styles, and if it’s only for playing around. But what is behind that new shortbread style? It’s dark, you almost can’t recognize stuff at the first glance, and you have to zoom in quite a lot to get details like street names. For what kind of use case is shortbread intended?
Maybe for overlays? If you have other data you want to show on a map, it may be desired that the basemap is unobtrusive.
Ok, i see. But i think i never used overlays so far. Although i’m curious about it. I’d like to see something like some “Stadtteile” overlay for Hamburg, if that exists. Just as an example. Maybe someone can point me to some existing overlays for Germany? Thank you.
It’s confusing, but the actual name of the map style that is listed as “Shortbread” in the layer switcher is “Versatiles Colorful”. It’s one of three that the Versatiles project has created. The name “Shortbread” refers to the schema that defines what data goes into the vector tiles.
The “clever bit” behind that new vector tiles layer is that it updates in real time, just like the “Standard” layer does. I’m guessing, but I suspect that the reason why that style was chosen was at least partly that it already existed as a map style for the schema, reducing the number of things that needed to be developed from scratch before something could be added as a layer to osm.org. Other map styles for the schema exist - there are a few listed here. I’ve created one, and so could you - the style definition is basically a big .json file that points to where e.g. the vector tiles, fonts and icons are.
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Thanks. I am just a user of the maps, and have no clues about .json and all the other things that are possible on a developer level.
You’re probably looking at the eclipse version of the style which is a dark style because you have your device set to dark mode. To see a light map, you have to log in and change a setting in your preferences (“Preferred Map Colour Scheme”).
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That worked. Thank you!
Can this be done without login?
Based on the reply link, I’m guessing that “this” is “put the OSM site in dark mode”. Based on topics here and here I suspect that the answer is “no”.
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I am guessing the question was about how to turn off dark mode for the map when have your device/browser set to dark mode, and are not logged in. Unfortunately I don’t think that’s possible..
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In addition, there is a plan to create a new style for the layer that can serve as a general-purpose map, the same way Carto has for all these years. The first steps of this can be found at GitHub - pnorman/spirit. However, how to pursue this is still under discussion at the EWG, and it will still take some time.
Of course, ideas are welcomed (and EWG meetings are open to guests).