v12.0.0

Requires

• Tangram JS v0.16+ or Tangram ES v0.10+

Enhancements

• Connects shield artwork added in v11 to v1.5 Tilezen vector tiles for ~40 countries globally including the USA, with simplified styling logic and pixel perfect alignment.

Breaking changes

• Switch to using optional theme imports for USA state shields and all international shields. US interstate (US:I) and US federal routes (US:US) shields are still shown by default.

Bug fixes

• Changes terrain data source to Nextzen from Mapzen for long-term tile support, affected terrain themes

v11.0.0-docs1

Requires

• Tangram JS v0.14+ or Tangram ES v0.9+

Enhancements

• Update HTML rig to use Nextzen API keys and new YAML globals

v11.0.0

Requires

• Tangram JS v0.14+ or Tangram ES v0.9+

Enhancements

• Adds hundreds of new map icons
• Adds hundreds of new road shields for all USA states, Canadian provinces and territories, and national shields for ~40 countries
• Other minor improvements

Breaking changes

• Changes data source to Nextzen from Mapzen for long-term tile support
• Changes data source format to mvt
• Changes global variable to sdk_api_key from sdk_mapzen_api_key

v10.0.0

Requires

• Tangram JS v0.14+ or Tangram ES v0.9+

Enhancements

• Adds terrain themes to enable shaded relief in Refill in 2 flavors: terrain-shading and terrain-pattern, with high contrast *-dark variations. Can be combined with any color theme.
• Adds new sdk_bathymetry boolean to enable under water terrain.
• Adds an inverted-dark theme with dark water to complement the existing inverted color theme.
• Adds new no-texture theme to remove all landuse, water, and related shader textures, replacing them with flat colors.
• Adds new sdk_coastline boolean to remove just that shader texture.
• Modify text halo to have 75% opacity to work better with relief shading and data visualization.
• Modify water stream lines to improve legibility with terrain.
• Modify boundaries layer lines to improve legibility with terrain.
• Other minor improvements.

v9.0.1

Requires

• Tangram JS v0.13+ or Tangram ES v0.8+

Enhancements

• Change the icons and road shields in the color-gray-gold theme to dark fill, gold outlines. See #78.

Bug fixes

• The colorized_icons shader mix-in was incorrectly referenced as colorized-icons in mapzen_icon_library style. See #78.

v9.0.0

Requires

• Tangram JS v0.13+ or Tangram ES v0.8+

Enhancements

• Add Zinc color theme (was stand-alone basemap style)

Breaking changes

• Source 512px vector tiles
  • For reduced network traffic and improved labeling
• Upgraded Mapzen icon library support
  • The same named icon textures, now with default draw styles that enables remixing with other Mapzen basemap styles, or independent use
  • The semi-documented icons style has been renamed mapzen_icon_library.
  • The semi-documented colorized-icons style has been renamed colorized_icons.

Bug fixes

• Fix font problems with bold Montserrat (used in some road and transit shields)
• Remove duplicate earth label declarations
• Simplify texture handling to make compatible with Zinc color theme
• Add px units to all sizes (otherwise m is assumed by Tangram)
• Some locality labels from the place layer were not correctly colliding (#68)
• One-way arrow handling
• Building labels for university, college, school, kindergarten

v8.0.0

Enhancements

• Add new detail and label themes (via imports) to re-skin the map.
  • Mapzen blog post
  • Cartography docs for levels of detail and label steps.

Breaking changes

• Color theme imports introduced in v7 are now prefixed with color- in v8.
• Label variant styles for refill-style-more-labels and refill-style-no-labels are now generated directly out of this refill-style repo via label theme imports. The other repos are no longer maintained and are marked such.

Bug fixes

• Added river and stream lines (which were already labeled), with special treatment for intermittent features.
• Refine lake and other water body area filters.
• Minor changes to ocean and sea labels.
• Building labels and other low-value (usually nameless) points of interest given a lower (worse) priority.
• Boundary lines that lacked a name:left and name:right will now draw using name alone (fixes bug preventing Hong Kong from rendering).
• Refactor neighbourhood label logic.
• Simplify park, national_park, battlefield, protected_area, forest, and beach label logic.

v7.2.1

• Add Tangram ES compatibility – theme assets like images now sit next to the themes instead of up in the project's image directory
• Minor bug fixes

v7.2.0

Enhancements

• Add new dark themes (via imports) to re-skin the map.
  • Mapzen blog post
  • Cartography docs

Bug fixes

• Fences and retaining walls now colorize

v7.1.0

Enhancements

• Add themes (via imports) with support for 1-color and 2-color options to re-skin the map. See #46.
  • Mapzen blog post
  • Cartography docs
• Add more road labels at earlier zooms. See #40.
• Add oneway arrows. See #47.
• Add left & right boundary labels. See #48.
• Add transit platforms (areas and lines)

Bug fixes

• Do not extrude buildings with negative layer values (e.g. terrace basements along canals). See tangrams/cinnabar-style#30.
• Display more bus_stop POIs consistently (even if the name can't fit show the icon). See #53.
• Restore fences to the map (a regression after v1.0 tiles). See #53.
• Map is no longer semi-transparent. See #26.
• Internal code cleanup and performance improvements. See #37.