On Aug 20, 2010, at 4:22 PM, simon blackmore wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have just climbed the mountain of installing mapnik, postgres etc etc on OS > X. >
Congrats and welcome! > It all seems to be working and now and I am keen to lean about controlling > the render process. Does anyone > know a simple way to omit street names from the render. > Labels are done within xml using the <TextSymbolizer /> (http://trac.mapnik.org/wiki/XMLConfigReference#Rule) so open the osm.xml and the xml files in the 'inc' folder and search for that. Then either just delete the <Rules> that contain them or find the <Style> that the TextSymbolizers are a part of, check its name, then find the <Layer> that uses that style and set the status of the layer to status="off" to disable the rendering of the layer. I know that will sound really complicated, and the osm styles are really large, so you might want to get started rendering some simple styles and practice with them (http://trac.mapnik.org/wiki/XMLGettingStarted) > I am guessing that its best to edit the osm.xml file but I am not quite sure > where to start. It is the biggest, most sophisticated style around so don't start with it. > I found some > quite brilliant tutorials on getting Mapnik up and running but not so much on > this sort of thing. > > Any tips or links would be very welcome. > > At the moment I am rendering with this > > $ ./generate_xml.py --dbname gis --user simon --accept-non > $ ./my_generate_image.py > That does render the osm.xml, just does not require you do pass it as an argument. Try nik2img if you want that control on the command line. > I think I need to pass the osm.xml file into the process but I am not sure > how to do that either. > > Thanks for your help > > Cheers > > Simon > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mapnik-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users _______________________________________________ Mapnik-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users
