Dear all,

Today, v2.45.0 of the openstreetmap-carto stylesheet (the default stylesheet on openstreetmap.org) has been released.

Changes include:

• Rendering all shops without a specific icon as a dot, not just a whitelist
• Scrub pattern change to random
• Changing pitch and track color
• Railway stations rendering as major buildings
• Rendering the name of man_made=bridge inside the polygon
• Documentation updates (including cartography design goals and icon design guidelines)
• Icons general code cleaning
• Various bug fixes

Thanks to all the contributors for this release, including micahcochran, a new contributor.

For a full list of commits, see https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/compare/v2.44.1…v2.45.0

As always, we welcome any bug reports at https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues.

You may also like to know that this release is the first with 3 new project maintainers on board. Please be aware that we’re going to drop some legacy dependencies soon (like Mapnik 2), so we’re approaching a big version change.