Residential landuse too light on midzoom

[matthijsmelissen]

Now residential roads no longer show up on zoomlevels 12 and smaller, residential areas have become a lot lighter on mid zoom levels:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=11/49.5918/6.1736

Forests and farmland are more colourful, so they attract more visual attention than residential. I would consider residential more important than other landuse at zoomlevels 10-12, so maybe we could make residential a bit darker on these zoomlevels?

CC @pnorman

[pnorman]

I would consider residential more important than other landuse at zoomlevels 10-12,

What about landuses in cities, like industrial, retail, and commercial?

[matkoniecz]

I would consider farmland as the worst problem with #1701 as potential method for solving it.

[kocio-pl]

@pnorman As far as I remember there was a proposition to aggregate all of human-related areas into something grey (residential or close to it) on some low enough zoom level.

[imagico]

In addition to #1701 it might make sense to also brighten the grass color a bit, Lch(92,32,128) seems to work fine, even brighter would collide with campsite. This is how this looks at z12:

It could also make sense, at z12 and especially at z<12, to darken the urban landuses somewhat - would need to take care to maintain sufficient contrast with the minor roads of course.

[matthijsmelissen]

This is improved by #1701, after this is rolled out we'd need to see if changes to residential is necessary too.

[matkoniecz]

This is improved by #1701, after this is rolled out we'd need to see if changes to residential is necessary too.

I think that built-up areas should be more prominent.

http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=11/50.3520/18.8223

[kocio-pl]

Resolved by #2654.