Frederik Ramm wrote: > [...] > Whenever I do a custom Osmarender style, I usually start with the > z17 style sheet which contains almost "everything"; it is much more > convenient to take that and remove everything I don't want than to > start with, say, a z12 style and insert all the extra presentation > rules I might need.
Sure, but there's a big difference between sharing a rules file for two scales of the same cartography, and sharing a rules file for two cartographies. In my (non-OSM) Illustrator map work I've often done (the equivalent of) the former, but never the latter. (Why the hell are we still trying to do [carto-]graphic design in text files anyway? I mean, the rest of the world got WYSIWYG in about 1984...) > [...] > And another thing: > > One of the things I like best about Steve (Chilton)'s Mapnik > > cartography is that it doesn't try to render "all these keys". > > This is not a special feature of the Mapnik cartography but of > every single OSM cartography I've seen to date. - Just in case you > were trying to suggest that the Osmarender guys would thoughtlessly > clutter their maps. Which you weren't of course ;-) Indeed not - just because I like something about Steve's cartography doesn't preclude the option that other cartographers may follow a similar principle! But, to my mind, that actually underlines why a shared-rules approach wouldn't work - if "every single OSM cartography" only shows selected tags, then their selections will differ. (As, indeed, will the designs chosen to represent each tag.) At which point I fail to see what shared rules bring to the party. YMMV, of course. The real challenge IMO is not "creating rules files is hard, so let's have one rule file for all three renderers", it's "creating rules files is hard, so let's make it easier"... and it's good to see progress being made on WYSIWYG tools, finally relegating the "rules file" itself to the internal storage format it should be. Of course, if you were to propose a cartographic design utility that could output a rules file in either Mapnik or Osmarender format... well, _then_ you'd be talking. cheers Richard _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
