Matt Amos wrote > i'd sound a note of caution about having separate "clean" and "detailed" > styles. we sort-of did that before with mapnik and osmarender respectively > and... well, we don't have osmarender any more.
I doubt that having to maintain two styles was what killed osmarender. It was a technological issue in that the renderer required far too many resources while being less powerful than mapnik in the end and made it difficult to maintain the required server infrastructure. I am hoping that client side rendering (e.g. KothicJS) with vector tiles (geojson) will replace the purpose of osmarender one day. It should allow a wide variety of different styles without added server resource requirements, including e.g. a "detailed" community style. It would also make it much easier for people to experiment with all sorts of specific purpose styles and showing them to the world without having to shell out for a beefy tile rendering server to do so. That way OSMF can host one cartographically "clean" and tightly maintained, but fairly comprehensive bitmap style and one json vector tile style, while covering a broad set of wishes and needs. Kai -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Status-of-the-Mapnik-stylesheets-tp5735606p5735692.html Sent from the Developer Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
