Hi, The trick they use in the Mapnik maps is not to colour the oceans because 70% of Earth is water. Therefore the background colour is set to ocean blue and land masses are drawn above it from the land polygons data set http://openstreetmapdata.com/data/land-polygons.
-Jukka Rahkonen- Ákos Maróy wrote: > Hi, > I wonder what the proper way is to render maps that show oceans in a > proper manner (say, oceans being blue), based on OSM data? (when having > an OSM planet imported into a PostGIS database)? > it seems that trying to use natural=coastline doesn't work, as the > coastline encloses the land mass, not the water all tips welcome Akos ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60135991&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Geoserver-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60135991&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Geoserver-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users
