Hi 80n! :) > JOSM is directed towards editing nodes, ways and relations. For the > Osmarender frontend you want to be editing rules and styles. Not sure > that JOSM helps much with that.
My idea was to integrate this as an independent JOSM plugin only to let the final user living with as few different programs as possible. IMHO, this could improve the overall usability. There would be no direct relation with JOSM code (perhaps, if it's possible, the plugin could take the OSM file which JOSM is editing in the same time). > 1) I'd imagine something that has a test .osm file and a complete rules > file as input. It should then display the rendered test file and > provide a way for the user to change the styling of any element > (motorway, footway, river, building, etc). It should then emit a > modified rules file. Once you have a solution that can edit styles, > you'd then need to be able to add/remove/edit rules. This is a > different kind of activity from editing styles. So, if I understood well.. I'm focusing these guidelines, which I'm integrating with some ideas of mine: 1) The user can edit overall options (found in http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Osmarender/Options) 2) There should be some way to add/remove/edit styles. My idea is to let the user select from a list of the real CSS names and/or select from a "modified name" (eventually hierarchical.. i.e. "stroke-width" becomes "width" under menu "stroke", with some associated help tip) 3) Enter rules easily. This should be something like a "query editor" to select "all kind of nodes like.." or "this node" (is there a way to pick up a specified node in the original OSM? Sorry I've to study better :)) and associate a style to it. 4) There should be a way to pass easily between styles and rules to handle issues like "I've created a rule but I forgot to create the associated style..." or "This style it's not what I wanted, I must change that". 5) Node names or way names (or groups) can be selected through a kind of pull down menu which filters the content of the original OSM file. 6) Symbols/areas can be selected by a text/visual selection, which contains images extracted from symbol-catalogue.svg (or other collection like that). In addition, it should accept custom symbols uploaded by the user. 7) I think it could be great to let the user view tips somewhere in the program, like what can be found in http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Osmarender/Tips, or what can be found in http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Osmarender_Styleguide. These tips should be not the "tip-of-the-day", but I imagine something more "target-oriented", so they will be viewed only in relevant areas of the program. (for example, color tips should be viewed when I'm editing a color style, not a width style :))) 8) Something useful could be optionally saving created styles/rules/symbols (a sort of internal library). 9) This is a question more than a proposal. I can't understand how are "osmarender:" tags are used. Should they be added to the OSM file before applying styles and rules? In this case... it could be great to select single ways/areas directly from the preview output.. but I'm starting to be visionary ;) ;) Please let me know if there is something I haven't understood well. > It might be worth looking to see what can be done with Inkscape plugins. > > 2) Another approach would be to augment some generated svg with > javascript and build a style/rule editing app that runs in a browser. > This would probably be a bit more work than using, say, Inkscape, but > could be a nice lightweight solution. Can you please explain better this approach? I'm figuring a "classic" web app, with some AJAX to let the browser render any modified SVG file the WYSIWYG way, and some javascript (or a Java servlet) to modify styles/rules. Is this correct? Bye! Mario _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
