Embankments rendering in OSM Carto fork:
http://blog.imagico.de/rendering-implicit-embankments/
and new pattern generator version:
Here is my second article about map designing principles - this time it’s about the size:
Article about pattern changes in imagico’s OSM Carto fork:
New release (v4.15.0) is here:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/kocio/diary/44989
The biggest changes are changing gastronomy objects color to orange and changing farmland and societal amenities colors. The changes are still waiting for OSM.org deployment.
Hi kocio,
thanks for information and thank you for all the activities working on carto!
By the way, when I just compared the iD-Editor and carto changelog info page:
https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
On the iD-Editor changelog list I noticed links to the involved pull requests for a lot of new added features.
Example: Add preset for sport=badminton (#5233, thanks @rene78)
Is this something you could also do for carto changelog page? Or does this need to much time to add?
Thanks for watching this.
Regards
AB
edit: +example
Hi!
It is something I thought of and it’s perfectly doable, but it makes release more tedious and error prone. It would need somebody willing to do this work. Would you like to join?
I try to focus on merging stuff and occasionally releases. The only way to make more than currently is via teamwork.
Hi
I have mapped boundary relations for State Forests e.g. https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/8325800 and the adjacent National Park boundary.
However the State Forest boundary becomes indistinguishable when the wooded areas, which normally extend beyond the SF boundary, are also mapped.
National Park boundaries are still visible when wooded areas are mapped across the their boundary.
Is the rendering of protected areas yet to be resolved so that, for example, state forests boundaries are still visible like the national park boundaries?
If this is the relevant discussion, is it close to being resolved?
https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/603
Edit: I have now read all the discussion in the link and see steady progress is continuing toward a good outcome soon.
I still plan to start rendering them. It just took some time to make research which proved that there’s no clear mapping between them and natural reserves, so they can’t be be unified, and after that there were a lot of other, more clear issues.
If you could do something with coding or testing, it would help a lot.
Tomasz-W (active OSM Carto contributor) diary entry “Make OSM-Carto brighter”:
New release v4.17.0 is out with more changes than usually. Some of them are quite visible, like rendering natural areas from z5, dots for gastronomy objects on z17 or new icons for memorial subtags:
New release v4.18.0 is out (it will probably start to roll out on OSMF servers this night):
https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/kocio/diary/47284
Highlights include rendering healthcare tag scheme, changing natural=scrub color, changing landuse=allotments color and pattern, adding rendering for natural=cape and something special for the winter - rendering leisure=ice_rink. 
If anyone needs current set of low zoom OSM Carto tiles, Paul Norman offers them for download (from level 0 to 6, 8, 9 or 10):
http://legolas.paulnorman.ca/prerender/
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2019-January/030488.html
New release v4.19.0 is out and as always I suspect it will start to roll out on OSMF servers tonight:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/kocio/diary/47491
It adds rendering for boundary=protected_area, makes boundaries of all the protected areas less aggressive, renders few icons for amenity=vending_machine, adds more barrier icons and (once again in a short time) changes allotments color and pattern - it’s fixing few more problems than previous pattern and I hope it will stay for a long time. It includes also many more additional tweaks and fixes than usually.
Thanks!
Well done team. The boundary=protected_area looks great and one I have been keen to see.
@nevw: We are discussing currently what features are missing on the map outside the Europe and in rural places, what would you propose?
@kocio: for me, about the only problem is that the State Forestry boundaries need to be rendered.
The boundary becomes indistinguishable when the wooded areas, which normally extend beyond the SF boundary, are also mapped and this commonly occurs.
I thought this was fixed with the latest change to render boundary=protected_area, because I have been tagging them as relations, type=boundary, boundary=protected_area, landuse=forest, protection_title=State Forest as I feel that state managed forestry areas are resources-protected-areas mostly class 14 I guess and rarely a nature-protected-area class 6
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dprotected_area
But looking at how others map the state forests I see most don’t map them as boundary=protected_area as I do so I am a bit uncertain in my thoughts for the moment.
I would like to see the landcover scheme rendered in due course https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Landcover
I have mentioned this topic on the Talk.au (Australian talk group) to see if others have more to add regarding rendering deficiencies.
Great! Please let us know here or in the proper ticket (if possible):
https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/3635
New release (v4.20.0) is out, the most important things are progressive lightening major buildings, rendering aboriginal areas, dropping rendering of leisure=common and restoring missing oneway arrows for tracks and paths - here is a full announcement: