Here are "30 min make your own OSM map with TileMill" instructions by AJ Ashton that points to a quite comprehensive OSM style sheet.
http://mapbox.com/blog/create-a-custom-map-of-your-city-in-30-minutes-with-tilemill-and-openstreetmap/ I've made this map with it using a geofabrik download: http://tiles.mapbox.com/lxbarth/map/OSMBrightBosnia On Mar 27, 2012, at 4:12 AM, Graham Jones wrote: > Hi Parveen, > Sorry for the delay in replying, I had missed this email. > > I like the idea of making it easy for less technical users to create their > own maps. You are right that it is now (relatively) easy to set up a tile > server given the work that has been done packaging the main tools, but > creating a map style is quite a task, and even customising the default OSM > one is daunting. > > Therefore I think a project based on helping people create custom map styles > is a good thing. > > To turn your idea into a good proposal, I think you need to address the > following: > • How will this work - is it a text file that the user edits manually, > or will there be a graphical interface? > • If it is a graphical system, is it a desktop application or a web > based one? In either case, how will you go about it? > • Will it work on mapnik XML style sheets, or carto CSS ones.....or > maybe the CSS style used by KothicJS and others? > • It would be good to compare your ideas to TileMill, which is going a > long way to doing what you are proposing, but I think we lack a tilemill > (carto) base style for OSM data to customise (I have some very simple ones, > but they are way off the complexity of the standard OSM mapnik style). One > of last year's Mapnik GSoC projects may have created an XML to carto > converter, which could help? Therefore one possibility may be to use > tilemill as a base for the project. > The simplest step forward, which I think would be useful would be to extend > the use of entities in the existing XML stylesheet so that all of the styles > for drawing the various components are defined in a single place, separated > from the more complicated bits, but I have not looked at how feasible this is > given the support for various zoom levels in the style sheet - it may not be > much simpler (but could maybe have a file for each zoom level?). > > Anyway, these are just a few thoughts to help you put together a proposal > which you would like to work on, and are confident in being able to achieve > in the GSoC timescale. > > Regards > > > Graham. > > > > On 25 March 2012 13:06, Parveen Arora <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I want to apply for OSM GSoC. > I am having idea of "StyleSheet Generator for OSM", i.e. users can > create style-sheets of their own choice based upon their own > preferences and requirements and those stylesheets can be used using > any renderer. > > Using this maps for Map for visually handicapped can be created > easily, the one who can't read small fonts or are having color > blindness, so that maps suitable for them can be easily available. > This can have many more benefits like any one who wants to show > particular roads or points on the map can generate the style-sheets > for that. > > One more thing is that there is lot of work already has been done to > set up map tile server that one can easily do that using few commands, > and that can be more useful applied with stylesheet generator. > > Please let me know If something similar already exist so that I can > check that and can look for improvements in that if required. > > If there is nothing exist similar, this can be feasible during the > GSoC time period. > > Please give your valuable suggestions, feedback and improvements or > anything else that can be done along with this idea. > > Thank You. > > -- > Parveen Arora > www.parveenarora.in > E-Mail: [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev > > > > -- > Graham Jones > Hartlepool, UK. > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev Alex Barth http://twitter.com/lxbarth tel (202) 250-3633 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
