There's still a lot of things that Cascadenik does much better than Carto (e.g. datasource definitions and templating) and I don't know how many people (other than me) have even attempted running carto on openstreetmap stuff outwith tilemill - from what I've seen so far it's a bit awkward there too. But yeah, Cascadenik is going through a bit of a development pause it seems.
It's not really anything to do with Foundation by the way, it's entirely up to the osm-mapnik stylesheet maintainers how they want to develop the style, and what tools and technologies suits them best. Cheers, Andy On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Josh Doe <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for all the info. It seems Cascadenik has been superseded by Carto, > at least that's my impression, as Cascadenik hasn't been touched since last > year, and Carto is inspired by Cascadenik but has seen more recent and > active development. It would be interesting to see a comparison between > Carto and MapCSS. However I'm not sure if OSMF would even be interested in > changing the main stylesheet over to one of these. > -Josh > > On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Andy Allan <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Phil! Gold <[email protected]> wrote: >> > * Josh Doe <[email protected]> [2011-07-27 10:52 -0400]: >> >> I'm curious if anyone has ever attempted to convert the massive OSM >> >> Mapnik >> >> stylesheet to one of the CSS-like languages such as Cascadenik or >> >> Carto. >> > >> > I started trying to do a conversion to Cascadenik, but gave up on it >> > because >> > Cascadenik was generating tons of unnecessary rules (basically, the >> > cartesian >> > product of all my selectors) that slowed Mapnik down quite considerably. >> > Maybe it's possible, but it's certainly not for the faint of heart. >> >> There's a new feature in mapnik to handle this better which carto uses >> - a flag for mapnik to match only one rule per style. Saves all the >> "and not X and not (not X and Y)" that Cascadenik generated. I don't >> know how much it helps though, all my projects have either been XML or >> cascadenik, or carto, and I've never tried converting one to the other >> and comparing benchmarks. >> >> Cheers, >> Andy >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev > > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev > > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
