Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik viewer for OSM data - UI suggestions?
On Sunday 04 May 2008 22:44, Gervase Markham wrote: Nick Whitelegg wrote: My idea is to try and shield the user from the XML file altogether. Rather than get a user to open an XML file, I'd like users to be able to simply open an OSM file, download data from the API, or retrieve data from a PostGIS database, and then use the UI to define styles for OSM key/value combinations. Right - but which styles? E.g. for roads, do you want to allow them to define colour, border colour, width, ...? For pubs, do you want them to be able to choose their own icon, select from a list? I'd also like the users to be able to define, and order, layers for their map. So they have to be able to decide what features go on which layer? Gerv Yes, all of these things. Nick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik viewer for OSM data - UI suggestions?
Nick Whitelegg wrote: My idea is to try and shield the user from the XML file altogether. Rather than get a user to open an XML file, I'd like users to be able to simply open an OSM file, download data from the API, or retrieve data from a PostGIS database, and then use the UI to define styles for OSM key/value combinations. Right - but which styles? E.g. for roads, do you want to allow them to define colour, border colour, width, ...? For pubs, do you want them to be able to choose their own icon, select from a list? I'd also like the users to be able to define, and order, layers for their map. So they have to be able to decide what features go on which layer? Gerv ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik viewer for OSM data - UI suggestions?
Nick Whitelegg wrote: One of the OSM projects I'm hoping to work on is a Mapnik GUI renderer for ..osm files (and live API data, cached locally, and PostGIS databases), based on the Mapnik viewer. However what would be good is to get some user interface suggestions from people. The aim is to try and make it as easy as possible for people to render, and print, custom Mapnik maps. Are you asking people which of Mapnik's many knobs you think need exposing in your UI? Or have you chosen a set of knobs but want to know how best to present those capabilities in a usable way? If the former, where can we find a list of knobs to choose from? If the latter, which knobs have you chosen? Gerv ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik viewer for OSM data - UI suggestions?
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Nick Whitelegg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, One of the OSM projects I'm hoping to work on is a Mapnik GUI renderer for .osm files (and live API data, cached locally, and PostGIS databases), based on the Mapnik viewer. However what would be good is to get some user interface suggestions from people. The aim is to try and make it as easy as possible for people to render, and print, custom Mapnik maps. One thing I notice people running into is providing an interface for users to view the contents of the data being rendered. The results of the queries for the layers, for example. QGIS has this to some extent. For extra points: the user can click on an item and see its attributes and which style/layers are associated with it. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://svana.org/kleptog/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
