Proposal: Display railway tracks from zoom level 6

[DomeQdev]

NOTE from maintainer:
If you want this proposal, please vote for this comment by a reaction!

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Currently, railway tracks appear starting from zoom level 8.
It would be helpful to display them from zoom level 6 as well, to provide a better overview of the rail network at regional scales.

[hyperknot]

Can you check if they show up in the inspector view? This way we can decide if it's a styling or data level choice.
Set view to Inspect in the top row
https://maputnik.github.io/editor?style=https://tiles.openfreemap.org/styles/bright

[DomeQdev]

It's data level choice.

[hyperknot]

Thanks you for checking it up. Normally, I don't want to deviate from upstream OpenMapTiles, but I'm not against it either, if we believe some changes would be necessary.

What I'm going to do is start an issue which collects items which would require deviation from upstream OpenMapTiles and see how it goes. Maybe once we collect a few more we can look into how to do it, hopefully without forking OpenMapTiles.

[puehflo]

This would be really great to make less car-centric maps!

[hyperknot]

Sure, I have nothing against the proposal. At this point please vote to show your interest, then if there is enough community interest I'll look into how can we do this without a hard-fork of OpenMapTiles.

[ztzthu]

Please have my vote for a more public-transport oriented map!