Runway does not scale well

[BertMule]

Here is a simple airfield with 1 runway.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/53.20895/7.03385

When zooming out it gets relatively wide, up to a width where it (coincidentally?) fills an enclosing area.
Maybe this is arbitrarily meant to emphasise the runway. I find it undesirable anyway.

The runway is drawn as a line, not as an area. (#4340)

Maybe #4607 will help.

[imagico]

Drawing lines for roads etc. wider that their on-the-ground width at low zoom levels and at or more narrow than their ground width at the high zoom level is a universal characteristic of maps. The line width progression currently used for runways:

openstreetmap-carto/style/roads.mss

Lines 3509 to 3513 in dae7527

	[zoom >= 12] { line-width: 4; }
	[zoom >= 13] { line-width: 6; }
	[zoom >= 14] { line-width: 12; }
	[zoom >= 15] { line-width: 18; }
	[zoom >= 16] { line-width: 24; }

is somewhat non-uniform (see #4607 (comment)) - something that should be improved. Getting better rendering at high zoom levels would be a matter of revisiting #1290. This was also mentioned in #4607 (comment).

Closing this as the principal idea of a line width progression from more than ground width at low zoom to less or equal to ground width at high zoom is not something we are going to change. Improving the shape of this progression is already part of #4607. If there is support to reopen #1290 i would be in favor of that.

[BertMule]

I do hope the widths are adapted.
It looks disproportionate now, compared to roads.