Make living street casing darker to increase contrast

[matthijsmelissen]

This resolves #1194

[matthijsmelissen]

We can look at a further change of colours of pedestrian/living_street later, but this is a first step that resolves the immediate problem.

[nebulon42]

Could you please provide a preview?

[matthijsmelissen]

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[kocio-pl]

It is a clear improvement for me. How would it look like on residential landuse?

[matthijsmelissen]

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[kocio-pl]

Not good enough for me, but a bit better.

[polarbearing]

The grey gives them a lot of prominence when there are many residential streets in an area, see here:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/52.4606/13.7238

Maybe we could render them narrower, such as highway=service, while keeping the grey?

[daganzdaanda]

Maybe we could render them narrower, such as highway=service, while keeping the grey?

Yes, that would make a lot of sense. Most of the living_streets that I know are really narrow, or at least made to look narrow so that drivers feel they can't go fast there.

[matkoniecz]

The grey gives them a lot of prominence when there are many residential streets in an area, see here:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/52.4606/13.7238

Yes, this is a problem. And there are more affected places like http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/50.0769/20.0377

Maybe we could render them narrower, such as highway=service, while keeping the grey?

It seems like a good idea.

@math1985 Is it intentional to make living street stronger and more visible at z13?

[HolgerJeromin]

are living streets really so different to deserve such a complete other color?

[polarbearing]

highway={footway|pedestrian|living_street} are all ways where pedestrians have some priority, though footway is visualised completely different, the red colour even carrying some restrictive semantic. Some convergence between them would be useful.

[matkoniecz]

@HolgerJeromin

are living streets really so different to deserve such a complete other color?

It inspired #1326 ("render highway=living_street exactly like highway=residential and highway=unclassified")

[matthijsmelissen]

We could consider merging this now as a temporary solution and in the meanwhile continue exploring a way to change the rendering of living streets more radically.

[pnorman]

I think it's an improvement, but we may need to look at it further.