German Style

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German Style
Deutscher Stil
Berlin, Germany
Berlin, Germany
Author: Sven Geggus
Based on: Standard tile layer
Slippy map: www.openstreetmap.de/karte.html
Language: German
Style license: Same license as Standard tile layer: CC0 1.0[1]
Source code: giggls/openstreetmap-carto-de

German Style or deutscher Stil is a fork of the Standard tile layer maintained by Sven Geggus and is usually kept in sync to new releases.

It aims to provide a map which is more similar to conventional maps (like Shell-Atlas) commonly used in Germany.

History

A description of the styles history is currently only available in German at www.openstreetmap.de/germanstyle.html

Main differences to OSM Standard Style

  • Localization using German names and Latin script for all around the world. There is also a Localization only branch without further changes. Localization Source code is available at https://github.com/giggls/osml10n
    (The provided code can be used for any target language using Latin script)
  • Abbreviations for "Street" in common languages (e.g. Straße -> Str.)
  • Style and colors of major roads (Motorway, primary, secondary, ...)
  • Style of footway, cycleway and path
  • Style of paved tracks (tracktype=grade1 or surface=paved)
  • Style of "living_street"
  • Border colors
  • Added rendering of highway=proposed
  • Style of highway=construction
  • Common German symbols for deciduous and coniferous forests.
  • Draw line marking on sports grounds tagged leisure=pitch
  • Additional and different POI-types (Castle, Pharmacy, ...)

Sites using the Style

External links

Footnotes