Using QGIS to apply a 1777 style to today's OpenStreetMap data

• duckduckgo-locales

  2,076 94 0.0 Perl

  Translation files for <a href="https://duckduckgo.com"> </a>

  

Modern Google/Apple maps are incredibly low contrast and I don't know why. Seems like they want to have streets and land stand back to make room for features such as pin locations, buisness markings (advertising) or dedicated layers such as traffic.

I really don't get it. Here in Germany, in the last century, "road atlases" were a thing, big maps with great overview and detail maps which were basically at maximum contrast. For examples, see for instance https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=autokarte+deutschland&iax=i...

It seems that OSM (OpenStreetMaps) gets this "more right" in some respect, but still it is not the same. Why? Too little confidence of the map makers to highlight the correct things?

• Openstreetmap

  741 2,022 9.9 Ruby

  The Rails application that powers OpenStreetMap

  

• WorkOS

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  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• DeepMaps

  1 31 10.0 Python

  Browse online maps as if they were hand-drawn in the 19th century!

Nice! The rendering is more polished than what I did a few years ago in another similar project: apply CycleGAN style transfer on Google Maps / OpenStreetMap tiles to redraw them interactively as old hand-drawn maps https://github.com/nathanvogel/deepmaps

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