OpenStreetMap Carto
The standard map style for OpenStreetMap rendering
OpenStreetMap Carto is the CartoCSS map stylesheet used to render the standard map layer on openstreetmap.org. It is used with renderers like Mapnik to produce raster tiles from OSM data.
Key features
- Standard OSM map style
- Mapnik rendering
- Detailed cartography
- Widely reused base style
Strengths
- Released under the CC0-1.0 license
- Active community (1.7k GitHub stars)
- Written in CartoCSS
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