About the OpenStreetMap Pastel style

by Anders Lund

This OpenStreetMap vector style was derived from the OSM Bright style from OpenMapTiles as a learning project, trying to understand how to work with OSM vector tiles and MapLibre. Note that this is work in progress!

Goals with this style: To create a beautiful map with a good visual representation of features on all zoom levels.

Many administratve boundries are hidden, and styles changed, to make those less dominant.
That silly wave pattern in water bodies removed.
Adjust lightness of greens, so that woodland is darker than grassland.
Display farmland.
Display wetland.
Darken the inherited land color a bit in mid zoom ranges, so that villages, towns and cities are more visible.
Display Stadiums and sports pitches.
Display piers.
Make the map slightly more contrasy, various color adjustments.
Change tracks (dirt roads) to be visually different from small roads.
Hide some garden and park icons, to avoid overflowing the map with those. This may be changed to using less contrasty icons for the purpose.
A more complete iconset thanks to osmapp.org

To compare with the original style, use the style switcher in the top left corner of the map.

A big thank you to the amazing OpenStreetMap and Maplibre communities.

This map is using OpenFreeMap tiles - thank you for providing those.

Help me testing: Please navigate to your own area and look at how it renders here. Does it look OK? Visit an area with piers, like a marina or harbour, and an area with stadiums and sports pitches.

If you would like to give feed back about OSm Pastel, you can do so here. Click the button top right to display this text again when ready.