On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:07 AM, simon blackmore <[email protected]> wrote: > Please excuse me sending two mails in a day. > I am new and excited to render some maps. > > I am just wondering if there is a simple way to render a map with mapnik > without all of the street names. > > Is it best to remove them from the postgis database or somehow exlcude > them in the rendering stage. > > Any examples or urls would be appreciated. > > Thanks for your help.
Hi Simon, and welcome! You can render in mapnik without visible names, as shown here on the wikimedia toolserver. http://toolserver.org/~osm/locale/?zoom=2&lat=0&lon=0&layers=BFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF You can then add the names using your locale or translation of choice. I didn't do the work shown here so I can't tell you exactly how "simple" it might be. The default osm style used in mapnik is rather involved and so I would call any modification of that style particularly "simple". But clearly what you want to do can be done. If you are already able to render with mapnik and have further questions you should consider joining #mapnik on irc.freenode.net, or the mapnik users mailing list. https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users To be clear, beginner questions, and you, are welcome here, and posting to mapnik-users@ and #mapnik will expose your questions to more people with specialty knowledge in mapnik. And again, welcome to the OpenStreetMap community. Best regards, Richard _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
