Sometimes, our customers needed a different background for their maps. Sometimes, they didn't want any label on them. Sometimes, they really wanted those lines to be ticker, while those other ones to be red. Most of the time, they didn't know how to code to do implement those changes themselves.

That's when we, at Ordnance Survey, started working on the Map Style Editor. A no-code webapp to edit stylesheets live while interacting with the map, to then be able to export and/or share them.

Then, the Roadmap changed and Map Style Editor was shelved.

However, the idea was out there and I thought it was too good to simply let that be forgotten.
Enters Map Fashionista, my free open source take on it. It follows similar principle, albeit using OpenStreetMap data.

This talk is going to be about the journey I went through, from the inception of Map Style Editor to the rise of Map Fashionista.