Hi all, We've just had an interesting 'Birds of a Feather' session at SotM about MapCSS.
There's an increasing number of projects using MapCSS - for example, at SotM we found out about OSMSharp (http://www.osmsharp.com/tags/mapcss). However, we have problems with documentation, fragmentation and lack of stylesheets. So the two main actions coming out of the meeting were: == Improve documentation == We can provide in one place: - language reference - a list of all the different projects that use MapCSS - pointers to the community (i.e. this mailing list) At the moment we have http://www.mapcss.org/, which is a fairly basic static page with links elsewhere. A good way forward would be to move this to GitHub Pages (http://pages.github.com/) which is a fairly standard way of providing collaborative project documentation. This will make it much easier for the various MapCSS-using projects to contribute. If everyone's happy with this (Emilie, I believe you own the domain!) then I'll set up some initial pages and we can go from there. == Provide stylesheets == Andy made the good point that MapCSS effectively has a harder learning curve because there's very little "prior art" for people to start from - you can't really fork a stylesheet, you have to start from scratch. We can fix this by providing a handful of stylesheets. In addition, we can make an effort to make sure these render the same in different renderers, thereby bringing the implementations closer together. So if you have a stylesheet, pipe up and we can get it linked/hosted from mapcss.org. I'll also have a go at producing a simple roads/railways/rivers stylesheet to add to the collection. == Anything else? == If you were at the BoF and there's something I've missed, do say! Thanks to everyone for coming along. cheers Richard _______________________________________________ Mapcss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/mapcss
