On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 09:44:27AM +0100, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > >http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Osmarender > > Yes, I'd second that. Osmarender is stupidly impressive and the one > part of OSM that's currently producing n00b-friendly output.
Having learnt a little bit by osmosis about how the SLD, Styled Layer Description standard works (still reluctant to plough through the OGC specification wordmire and finding the geotools API/tutorial docs a lot easier on the eyes - cf http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Styles ) There's a close fit between Osmarender and SLD, to the extent that one could be XLST transformable into the other. Which would rock. I had a very positive experience over the last couple of days at this Open Source Mapping workshop in Hamburg. A lot of willingness amongst artists in pursuit of psychogeographic visions to engage with harder tools like JOSM, uDig and mapserver even. A very active local OSM contributor, Sven Anders came to walk through working with JOSM and showed off his Osmarender output. I worry now that I'm defacing Sven's beautiful Hamburg map; his GPS trace collection is super detailed and annotation very complete - I am a sketcher and just start drawing in nodes and segments based on the very faintest patterns i can discern from my bicycle tracks and hoping that someone who knows the terrain will come along and correct them later. Am i an delinquent data gardener? Am i lying to the geospatial web? > Theoretically, I guess, Inkscape should do much of the same, though > I've never found it as easy to get on with as Illustrator. Did you ever meet sodipodi? ;) :/ There's been a lot of irc babble today about the glorious conjugation of GIS and graphics tools - which metaphor comes first? which gets embedded in the other? Do you *like* illustrator, or just endure it? love, jo _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
