Reducing visual clutter on OSM maps

General talk
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Tools like MapComplete may help you to perform simple edits regarding a given topic.

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Yes. But the clutter Problem happends not there but by complex edits.

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I’m a former OpenStreetMap Carto maintainer, so I can speak with some authority on a few of the questions.

No. The purposes of OpenStreetMap Carto are

  • It’s an important feedback mechanism for mappers to validate their edits and helps to prevent unfavorable fragmentation of tag use.
  • It’s a major part of the public face of OpenStreetMap, for many people the map on osm.org rendered with this style is OpenStreetMap.
  • It’s used in many map applications as a general purpose map.
  • It’s an exemplar stylesheet for rendering OSM data.

The last two points implicitly require not displaying everything that has been mapped.

The OWG hosts OpenStreetMap Carto because the mapper feedback cycle works best with a map that is kept up to date with OSM data. We don’t expect the style to display everything that has been mapped.

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