Custom style for map

[rugk]

From the screenshots of your used lib I see it also supports showing the height of buildings in a 3d view, so why not use that?

[westnordost]

No reason other than time. At the moment, I am using a standard stylesheet. To create a custom stylesheet is very powerful, you can style any part of the map, even with shaders (have you seen the tron stylesheet on their website?). But it is a lot of work. The detailed stylesheets are about 4000 lines of code.

There are some cool things that can be done when this app has its own stylesheet, 3d buildings is one of them. But at the moment, I do not want to begin this undertaking as there are more pressing things to do.
If you are interested, you could play around, learn how to create those stylesheets and contribute this to this project.

[westnordost]

Actually, a StreetComplete related stylesheet could probably be much simpler than 4k lines of code as many things are not necessary at all

• no POIs are shown on the SC map
• no elements are shown that have no relation to the quests
• only things need to be shown that matter on the survey (on foot), i.e. colored distinctions between different roads (major, minor,...) are not necessary
• low zoom levels (i.e. zoom < 12 or similar) don't matter / can be disabled

So it might not be that much work.

Are you interested? (or anyone else who is reading this)

I am aiming for a very clear and clean map where - as said - only those things are visible which help the specific use case of this app. See i.e. Pokemon Go, very simplistic. Regarding the color scheme, I was thinking that it should not be "shades of gray" but something with a little more colors as well. Again, Pokemon Go does this very good, but personally I like the colors used in the Tron stylesheet. Though, certainly something to experiment.

Start Experimenting Here

[rugk]

That's interesting. I think the Tron style is only useful for a "night/dark/black mode" of the app, as it should be light by default, but are not there some other nice templates you can use?
Of course one can also design a custom style, but actually I already liked the left style in their screenshot very much, so maybe you can get a style for it.

[HolgerJeromin]

It would be very helpful to have housenumbers shown. Without a good GPS it is difficult to orientate.

[rugk]

I think that's tracked in #162.

[HolgerJeromin]

Thanks!