Map style: differences between Osmand and Openstreetmaps Web

[D.]

Hello everyone,

I have been playing with Osmand+ settings for a while, tweaking them to my needs and I am quite happy about the result.

There is one thing I can't fix and I hope you will help me solve it.

I would like to display the same map style as the one displayed onto the openstreetmap.org website:

As you can see there are different styles and different colors (grades) for streets, tracks and paths, whereas with the standard map style in Osmand+ there is no difference in color but only in style :

Does anyone know how to properly visualise the same map style of the osm website? 

What I would like to get is different colors for paths (red dots) and tracks (brown dashes), such as the default style of the osm website.

Cheers,

D.

[Bart Eisenberg]

Try Configure map/Map style/Mapnik.  

[D.]

Hi Bart,

Thank you for your reply.

I already tried all the different styles within the app and none of them is similar to the osm web version.

I know the  XML file can be tweaked, but I would like to avoid that as I don't know the different parameters that need to be modified.

Thought it was an easy task as I am looking for the standard map style of the osm website, but it's not.

Anyone else?

Thanks,

D.

[Dmitriy Prodchenko]

Hi! OsmAnd is not a part of OpenStreetMap. We have our own map styles for different purposes, most look like OSM it Mapnik. You can create your own map style http://osmand.net/build_it#rendering

[Davide Crosta]

Hi Dmitriy,

Thank you for your feedback, I know Osmand and Osm are two separate things, I just hoped I could import the same map style, in a way. 

From your reply I see this is not a smooth procedure, so I will look into the rendering settings and see if I can find a solution that suits my needs.

Thank you,

D.

2018-07-18 11:59 GMT+02:00 Dmitriy Prodchenko <dmpr...@gmail.com>:

Hi! OsmAnd is not a part of OpenStreetMap. We have our own map styles for different purposes, most look like OSM it Mapnik. You can create your own map style http://osmand.net/build_it#rendering

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[Danny Qwertz]

I'm also looking for a way to render the Osmand vector maps like the OSM-webversion because of its sleek design.

Maybe I will find some time to look into it or maybe anyone else already did the conversion to Osmand XML-stylesheet.

Will keep this updated if I find a way or solution to implement this!

Am Mittwoch, 18. Juli 2018 12:06:27 UTC+2 schrieb D.:

Hi Dmitriy,

Thank you for your feedback, I know Osmand and Osm are two separate things, I just hoped I could import the same map style, in a way. 

From your reply I see this is not a smooth procedure, so I will look into the rendering settings and see if I can find a solution that suits my needs.

Thank you,

D.

2018-07-18 11:59 GMT+02:00 Dmitriy Prodchenko <dmpr...@gmail.com>:

Hi! OsmAnd is not a part of OpenStreetMap. We have our own map styles for different purposes, most look like OSM it Mapnik. You can create your own map style http://osmand.net/build_it#rendering

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[Jim Barton]

I'd just like to be able to have styles like an Ordnance Survey 1:25000 or 1:50000 map.

[Poutnik the Wanderer]

Probably something like the Voluntary UK custom theme in Locusmap,
coming with 6 style variants and switchable features,
that follows the Ordnance Survey.

http://forum.locusmap.eu/index.php?topic=2915.0

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Dne 12. srpna 2018 10:53:33 Jim Barton <jimrb...@gmail.com> napsal:

> I'd just like to be able to have styles like an Ordnance Survey 1:25000 or
> 1:50000 map.
>

[Jim Barton]

Thanks for the link. I've had a look and installed the locus app, and it's not for me. It seems to be a complete separate download of a customised version of OSM Maps.

I'll investigate the custom themes in osmand. The links above merely try to open the xml file in my new feed reader!

[Poutnik the Wanderer]

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Dne 12. srpna 2018 18:54:50 Jim Barton <jimrb...@gmail.com> napsal:

> Thanks for the link. I've had a look and installed the locus app, and it's
> not for me. It seems to be a complete separate download of a customised
> version of OSM Maps.

Of course it is,
Why to expect it should not be ?

OSMAnd uses its msp format OBF,
LocusMap uses MapsForge compatible maps.

I posted it just as illustration, for eventual case the style is more
important fir a user than the application.

[Jim Barton]

Thank you for the clarification. 

[Jim Barton]

I've been looking into this and found that the Mapnik theme has returned to its original style and is back to motorways in blue, main roads in red and side roads in yellow. Excellent. (last time I tried it all the main roads were red.)

[Lucas Verney]

Hi,

I am currently developing a cycle oriented mapnik style (CyclOSM, https://github.com/cyclosm/cyclosm-cartocss-style/) and I am currently investigating the possibility to have it as an OsmAnd~ style. As far as I understood (through digging in this topic and the already existing style), the OsmAnd~ styling language is a custom one, not based on CartoCSS. Still, some styles existing elsewhere (e.g. the "Mapnik" style) are available in OsmAnd~.

Is there any (semi-)automated script or tooling to assist converting a CartoCSS style to an OsmAnd~ one? Or is the OsmAnd~'s Mapnik style a reproduction of the official osm.org style made entirely by hand?

Thanks!

P.S.: Sorry to bump into this thread, it seemed more appropriate to me to continue the ongoing discussion here (about CartoCSS to OsmAnd conversion) rather than opening a new topic.

[Andy Townsend]

On 15/06/2019 19:06, Lucas Verney wrote:
>
> Is there any (semi-)automated script or tooling to assist converting a
> CartoCSS style to an OsmAnd~ one? Or is the OsmAnd~'s Mapnik style a
> reproduction of the official osm.org style made entirely by hand?
>

I did have a look at doing something like this a while back, but didn't
really get anywhere - I was somewhat put off by the complexity of the
OsmAnd style (actually, it was more the volume of it than the complexity
of it!).  If there was something semi-automated I'd certainly be
interested in using it.

I suspect (and I may be mistaken, as it was ages ago I looked at any of
this) that OsmAnd's "Mapnik" style is just "more mapnik-like in some
areas" it's not a conversion.  For example, OsmAnd's "Mapnik" and OSM
Carto both render leaf_type on natural-wood similarly, but tertiary
roads different colours.

Having said all that OsmAnd's style files are among the "most
approachable" of any vector style that I've seen (perhaps second only to
mkgmap's for Garmin) so a conversion from a simple CartoCSS style would
definitely be doable.

Best Regards,

Andy