New Walkabout & Neighbourhood Map Styles

Mapzen together with Thuderforest convey both released novel map styles built upon OpenStreetMap data.

Mapzen's novel Walkabout map fashion is designed specifically amongst walkers together with hikers inwards mind. It emphasizes walking paths, hiking trails together with outdoor attractions. These walking related features are farther enhanced on the map yesteryear highlighting them at all levels of zoom.

Important to the blueprint is a educate of novel map icons. Outdoor related icons are colored blue-green to assistance emphasize outdoor related locations over other points of involvement on the map which job to a greater extent than muted greyness colored icons.  These outdoor related icons are used on the map to depict attending to features similar parks, beaches, ski resorts, campgrounds, picnic sites, restrooms, trailheads, peaks, waterfalls, domestic dog parks, together with outdoor furnish stores.

Important to the Walkabout map fashion is detailed colina shading, which uses Mapzen's global summit tiles.


Thunderforest's novel Neighborhood map fashion is a full general role map fashion which is designed to operate especially good when zoomed inwards on local areas.

Street labels are condensed inwards this novel map fashion to present equally many street names equally possible. Clear house labels are used on an uncluttered background to ensure that these street labels together with other place labels are easily legible on the map.