Should we use OSM Americana?

[dschep]

Just an idea, what do y'all think @mhpob @jacobwhall?

Also added a mask to better highlight that this is a map of just the greater Richmond area.

[jacobwhall]

I'm cool with it. I think the mask looks very nice, too. It's a bit unfortunate that Americana uses similar circles for town labels, but using purple for "Unknown/Other" helps alleviate that.

It's a bit sad to give up the delineations between different counties. I wonder if we could re-introduce that in a way that visually meshes with the mask.

@mhpob, if you dig these changes I say we merge

[jacobwhall]

I improved boundary line popups in e0bff3a, if we end up rendering boundaries in this PR I'll want to merge that in.

[jacobwhall]

re: county boundary lines, here is how Americana renders them (purple line across center of screenshot):

They get de-prioritized on lower zoom levels, and are difficult to see when looking at the whole region (dashed line in screenshot):

[mhpob]

It looks good, esp. with the mask.

There are lots of reds and greens; I'm not colorblind so I can't immediately tell, but may this cause issues? Probably beyond the scope of this PR

[dschep]

I can see what I can do to tweak the boundaries in Americana or just bring back the boundaries from overpass. I just didn't want plain black boundaries. I'll see what i come up with and share an update

[dschep]

Yeah. Regarding the colors, having shapes for each type and at all zoom levels would help.

[dschep]

Updated with boundaries, check it out: https://overpass-ultra.us/#run&query=url:https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MapRVA/maprva.org/d8c13b31eb73fa6e8ea10bfd8adb9d7b296b77b6/_includes/ultra-maps/surveillance.ultra

TBH, the more I use it.. the less I like it 😬

The high contrast of the features in Americana itself distract from the features we're trying to highlight IMO.