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tilemill - style landcover attributes on max zoom out

I have successfully installed tilemill and styled my maps using OSMBRIGHT as the a starting point
I've edited this theme to get it the way i need, it looks great apart from one thing:

I when zoom out to the world, the style is pretty bland (just one colour)
I wanted to use something like google streets on full zoom out level
https://www.google.com/maps/@-19.3740644,-55.8196685,4.18z

or like this
https://cloud.maptiler.com/customize/#streets/0.76/0/120.5

I've found something called natural earth 2 which also looks nice
http://www.shadedrelief.com/natural2/pages/about.html

My question is, how can i style OSM bright at max zoom out levels to look like the above?

I've been looking an it appears i need to apply GlobalLandCover layers like
landcover_treeland
landcover_cropland
landcover_scrubland
landcover_forestland
etc

I'm currently using Raster tiles

This is the base.mss that I was using as my starting point
https://github.com/mapbox/osm-bright/blob/master/osm-bright/base.mss

Can someone give me the code to achieve the above please?

Martin Nguyen

Hi websss,

Sorry I'm not familiar with GIS mapping, but I found a tutorial from tilemill that walks through adding zoom and scaling to make sure your map looks as detailed when you zoom out. https://tilemill-project.github.io/tilemill/docs/guides/advanced-map-design/

Hope this helps, I will continue looking for more information.
Martin Nguyen

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