German Style

German Style Deutscher Stil
Berlin, Germany
Author:	Sven Geggus
Based on:	Standard tile layer
Slippy map:	www.openstreetmap.de/karte.html
Language:	German
Style license:	Same license as Standard tile layer: CC0 1.0
Source code:	giggls/openstreetmap-carto-de GitHub

German Style or deutscher Stil is a fork of the Standard tile layer maintained by Sven Geggus and is usually kept in sync to new releases.

It aims to provide a map which is more similar to conventional maps (like Shell-Autokarte) commonly used in Germany.

History

A description of the styles history is currently only available in German at www.openstreetmap.de/germanstyle.html

Main differences to OSM Standard Style

• Localization using German names and Latin script for all around the world. There is also a Localization only branch without further changes. Localization Source code is available at https://github.com/giggls/osml10n
  (The provided code can be used for any target language using Latin script)

• Abbreviations for "Street" in common languages (e.g. Straße -> Str.)
• Style and colors of major roads (Motorway, primary, secondary, ...)
• Style of footway, cycleway and path
• Style of paved tracks (tracktype=grade1 or surface=paved)
• Style of "living_street"
• Border colors
• Added rendering of highway=proposed
• Style of highway=construction
• Common German symbols for deciduous and coniferous forests.
• Draw line marking on sports grounds tagged leisure=pitch
• Additional and different POI-types (Castle, Pharmacy, ...)

Sites using the Style

• openstreetmap.de - "OSM deutscher Stil", default style
• tile.openstreetmap.de
• map.gegg.us

External links

• A simple way to localize (latinize) an Openstreetmap style (2013 blog post)
• News from German OSM Carto style (2017 blog post)