too strong color for leisure=pitch, leisure=track

[matkoniecz]

It was noticeable before, now after building colour change it is quite bad. leisure=pitch, leisure=track should have muted/paler colour.

http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/50.0735/19.9205

[nebulon42]

Definitely, but I would also suggest considering desaturating all landuse colours so that they work better with the new buildings colour. I know that this is not the easiest task to do, though.

[matthijsmelissen]

The landuse colours have been desaturated a lot already recently. Do you think all of them are too saturated, or some in particular?

[SomeoneElseOSM]

The colours that are used for "very large landuses where there are other things mapped" (e.g. farmland) are definite candidates. Farmland at F4EBDF works quite well for me, but other similar ones (large landuses that are often adjacent to farmland) would need to change too.

After:

Before:

(obviously ignore the other style changes there)

[nebulon42]

The landuse colours have been desaturated a lot already recently.

I didn't know that. I really like the lighter building colour. I also think that built-up landuse like residential, industrial, retail, commercial could use a bit fine-tuning so that they work better with the new building colour. Overall, landuse colour should be paler (also farmland, forest, grass/meadow). The colour @SomeoneElseOSM suggested for farmland is not bad.

But this needs more discussion, obviously. For now I would propose to adjust residential, industrial, retail, commercial and maybe construction and grass/meadow. Sorry for hijacking this issue, but I had a quick try:

Please note that the building outline is 5% darker on the right than on the left.

Some map previews:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/48.21009/16.24593

http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/48.1859/16.3825

http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/48.1758/16.4014

[daganzdaanda]

@nebulon42, I like your improvements. But maybe open a new issue for that?

[kocio-pl]

@nebulon42: Generally speaking your propositions are quite convincing for me - and thanks for such a a systematic colours study! Some remarks:

• retail is too close to commercial (but commercial for me is not well defined and close to retail)
• the same for farmyard/farmland combo
• landuse=military is missing here (with landuse=military+military=barracks case, which is even more problematic)
• amenity=place_of_worship is not rendered now (which is not looking good to me) but amenity=place_of_worship+building=* is rendered as much darker than other buildings (which is good looking to me) - I wonder how your lighter version of amenity=place_of_worship plus current darker amenity=place_of_worship+building=* would look together (I guess that would be the best of both worlds).

[matthijsmelissen]

For pitches, we could add icons like the French rendering does. Perhaps than the colours don't need to be that distinct anymore.

[kocio-pl]

I like the french touch =} and agree that colours would not be that important then - the shape of pitch lines will be the key recognition feature.

[dkniffin]

👍 to the pitch lines from the french rendering. Any chance this could be added soon?

[pnorman]

👍 to the pitch lines from the french rendering. Any chance this could be added soon?

I thought we had an issue for that. Anyways, if you prepare a pull request then I can throw up some previews if needed to test the assortment of pitch combinations.

[kocio-pl]

The color is quite good, since even after modifications is still recognizable (construction color does not work so good on lower zooms).

On sport centers (and other bigger campuses) even if they are weaker, there is no loss of visibility - z14:

Before

After (lighten 5%, desaturate 5%)

After (lighten 10%, desaturate 5%)

On plain residential area with schools (small campuses) they are not so dominant any more - z15:

Before

After (lighten 5%, desaturate 5%)

After (lighten 10%, desaturate 5%)

On z16 their visibility is back to normal on small campuses, despite being less strong - see also rare case of pitch on the residential area:

Before

After (lighten 5%, desaturate 5%)

After (lighten 10%, desaturate 5%)

Another quite common case, pitch on a grass - z17:

Before

After (lighten 5%, desaturate 5%)

After (lighten 10%, desaturate 5%)