HI @Pnorman - is there somewhere that we can take a look at details of the brighmed map style?

The code is at https://github.com/kartotherian/brighmed

The cartography is based off of the previous style, and I've been posting some progress screenshots to IRC. Now that this issue is created, I can post them here.

Just some image updates

Looks absolutely awesome!!!

looking good, @Pnorman ! I'm excited to see it in action....and will labeling make sense as you zoom in? :)

As requested, names that rotate as you zoom in. This doesn't work on lines, so I embossed them instead.

and will labeling make sense as you zoom in? :)

I'm not sure what make sense means

The same area from osm-bright.tm2 looks like this

Love it!!! I'm sure I will have more improvement ideas soon :))))) Seriously though, Paul, well done, the style looks very clean. What major/minor things are left to do?

Hi @Pnorman - sometimes when users zoom in, the smaller streets get the labels, rather than the larger streets (because of label collisions)...or there aren't enough labels displaying for a user to make sense of the map. So far, with your sample above - it looks like labels are not colliding - thus displaying the labels that make sense based on the zoom level.

I'd still love to have an environment to play in to see the new style in action. :) Keep up the good work!

Label placements will always be an issue. I wouldn't say the street label placements are particularly good, and it comes down to conflicting requirements between using vector tiles, performance, cut off labels, and label density.