Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging FOR the renderer

2015-05-18 Thread François Lacombe
Such topics are curently discussed during the voting of a power tagging proposal on the wiki. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Power_supports_refinement Have a look to the voting section. As I understand, renders is A (out of plenty) way to look at the data. It sounds very

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging FOR the renderer

2015-05-18 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Am 18.05.2015 um 00:44 schrieb Paul Norman penor...@mac.com: Tiles@home was not a P2P map style, it was kept in SVN and used a distributed rendering system. Distributed rendering is still used, primarily by larger scale operations. yes, but because there were no or few authorities to

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging FOR the renderer

2015-05-18 Thread moltonel 3x Combo
On 18/05/2015, Daniel Koć daniel@koć.pl wrote: I think the mission will be accomplished once we have it integrated with OSM website somehow, just like we did with routing: there were already a few routing services using our data, so we may not care, but for average user they were just not

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging FOR the renderer

2015-05-17 Thread Daniel Koć
W dniu 18.05.2015 0:44, Paul Norman napisał(a): I am not certain of the details after this long, but I don't think the Tiles@home rendering was P2P either - simply distributed. You're probably right! =} I just focused on how distributed platform could be even more distributed in the future.

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging FOR the renderer

2015-05-17 Thread Simon Poole
Am 17.05.2015 um 21:36 schrieb Daniel Koć: . I also don't think we should let anybody do anything on default map, however the general idea is good if we split the problem: 1. We should have some tools to let people render their own style, no matter how crazy. It's possible of course from

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging FOR the renderer

2015-05-17 Thread Daniel Koć
W dniu 17.05.2015 22:22, moltonel 3x Combo napisał(a): Did you even try the existing tools ? Tilemilll is very userfriendly, and if Joe or Jane has trouble setting it up, they can just use the MapBox instance. There's very little skill needed to start tweaking an existing style, and the

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging FOR the renderer

2015-05-17 Thread Daniel Koć
W dniu 17.05.2015 23:47, Simon Poole napisał(a): Showing your favourite objects on a map with uMap is reasonably easy and in the mean time something fairly popular even with people without a deep technical background. I've heard about it lately and I like it. Great tool, but - how one

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging FOR the renderer

2015-05-17 Thread Paul Norman
On 5/17/2015 3:14 PM, Daniel Koć wrote: I have no idea how you'd apply P2P to map style design. It sounds like you; ve heard of a great technology, and want to apply it to every problem without fully understanding the technology and/or the problem. I even used it once on OSM - it was called

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging FOR the renderer

2015-05-17 Thread moltonel 3x Combo
On 17/05/2015, Daniel Koć daniel@koć.pl wrote: 1. We should have some tools to let people render their own style, no matter how crazy. It's possible of course from the technical point of view (the data and tools are available and the licenses are open), but that is far too complicated for

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging FOR the renderer

2015-05-17 Thread Daniel Koć
W dniu 16.05.2015 1:57, Rob Nickerson napisał(a): The people behind the default map render have put a lot of work in to trying to develop a map style which works well for the average OSM mapper. To have anyone come along and add their own styling for any map feature they like would be chaos.

[OSM-talk] Tagging FOR the renderer

2015-05-15 Thread pmailkeey .
I don't know whether this has been discussed or even mooted before... Tagging for the renderer is natural. Mappers, especially newbies will be disappointed their pet new feature they've just added to the db does not appear on the map. This situation is no use to anyone but has been allowed to

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging FOR the renderer

2015-05-15 Thread Jo
Of course the editors don't render EVERYTHING. Depending on the kind of work I want to focus on, I'm switching MapCSS styles and filters on and off in JOSM all the time. bicycle routes walking itineraries public transport routes addresses turn lanes traffic signs HOT validation speed limits It's

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging FOR the renderer

2015-05-15 Thread Rob Nickerson
when a mapper invents something new, they can add tags for colour, opacity, line colour, line width, line opacity - for areas and similar attributes for lines and points (colour, opacity, size etc.) and obviously tags for name and description etc. What do people think to this ? The people behind

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging FOR the renderer

2015-05-15 Thread pmailkeey .
On 16 May 2015 at 00:57, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: when a mapper invents something new, they can add tags for colour, opacity, line colour, line width, line opacity - for areas and similar attributes for lines and points (colour, opacity, size etc.) and obviously tags for