Just to follow up, I found that kosmtik's overlay plugin can be run with a negative value to create an underlay. With opacity around 0.3, the standard carto map from the public tileservers works great. I wish there was a public greyscale or b&w map though. I found a subscription service and quickly burned through my free account's monthly quota.
For me kosmtik works better since it also has a go to JOSM plugin. On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 2:14 PM Jonathan J. Bittner <[email protected]> wrote: > > the answer to my other question: > in kosmtik, the --style-id option can be used to modify the project URL > > > On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 10:23 PM Jonathan J. Bittner <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Thank you! That worked really, really well! >> >> On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 1:49 PM Michael Reichert <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Jonathan, >>> >>> Am 23.02.22 um 15:53 schrieb Jonathan J. Bittner: >>> > I just started doing some ORM development and I'm using kosmtik. While I >>> > like it, it's sometimes hard to figure out where you are or more >>> > appropriately, where you are trying to go. >>> > >>> > Some areas I can recognize by geography: single lines on peninsulas, major >>> > rail hubs like Chicago or Kansas City, by shape/lines once you know the >>> > area, etc. I can also get a permalink from ORM and put the coordinates >>> > into the url for kosmtik. >>> > >>> > However, I was wondering if there was a way to get the ORM background >>> > (Mapnik Grayscale) or similar to display behind the renderings from the >>> > MML >>> > file. There seems to be quite a few additional plugins for kosmtik but >>> > it's a bit confusing as to what they do or how they work. I've seen ones >>> > that will render side by side or over but not under. Not sure if I'd >>> > fully >>> > need to render the "world" or if the grayscale tiles could be pulled in >>> > from an existing tileserver. >>> >>> I often run https://github.com/geofabrik/tileserver-demosite where I >>> configure the layer served by Kosmtik locally and tiles from osm.org. >>> >>> Even more often, I try out changes using Nik4, i.e. I render static map >>> images (2048x2048 px). >>> >>> Best regards >>> >>> Michael Openrailwaymap mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Archived version of this message: https://lists.openrailwaymap.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/IDUK5JPYPXLVHTMBL7LTCZUL5GOLOIOF/ Archive of this list: https://lists.openrailwaymap.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/
