Improve the readability of ways

These mapstyles improve the visibility of ways (highways, waterways, buildings). Highways and waterways have colors that are more pregnant. Very handy for validators that are inspecting an area when zoomed out. Or for areas that are full of other objects.

The buildings mapstyle has a style setting to choose the color and to vary the width of the outline of the building.

Usage

See for installation instructions: https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Styles

When installed you can right click on the mapstyle and choose building outline color and line width.

The code

meta {
    title: "Color Ways";
    description: "Choose your preferred color and line width of building outlines for better visibility on different backgrounds. Also highways and waterways have clearer colors";
    version: "0.1.35_2024-04-20";
    author: "Martien van de Griendt, osm username martien-vdg";
    link: "https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Styles/ColorWays";
}

/* Setting Options */

setting::colordisplay {
  type: color;
  label: tr("Color used for displaying buildings");
  default: green;
}

setting::building_line_width {
  type: double;
  label: tr("Choose line width of building");
  default: 2;
}


/* Settings */

/* Buildings */

way[building] {
  color: setting("colordisplay");
}

way[building] {
  width: setting("building_line_width");
}


/* Highways */

way[highway=unclassified]
{
        width: 4;
    color: white;
}

way[highway=track]
{
    width: 4;
    color: peru;
    dashes: 12,9;
    dashes-background-color: springgreen;
}

way[highway=service]
{
    width: 3;
    color: aqua;
}

way[highway=residential]
{
        width: 2;
    color: Aquamarine   ;
}

/* Waterways */

way[waterway=stream]
{

        width: 2;
    color: DeepSkyBlue;  /* #00ace6 */ 

}

way[waterway=river]
{

        width: 6;

}

Styles_ColorWays-style.mapcss, Styles_ColorWays.zip

If you have questions or remarks, you can reach me via ​https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/martien-vdg

In the attachment section of this page you find the seperate mapstyles for buildings, highways and waterways.