Okay, but isn't the ultimate goal of this to get the shields on the map,
for the whole world to see? I mean, if I was the one doing this, I wouldn't
consider this a finished project until it was on the Standard (Mapnik)
layer on openstreetmap.org, integrated into the Carto stylesheet. To be
Country or region specific styles will have a hard time making it to
the main osm.org layer I have a feeling, just because it makes the
stylesheet more complex and there's only so many eyes on it. It would
add a bunch of assets to the site that would only be used for U.S.
rendering - and then
* Evin Fairchild evindf...@gmail.com [2013-10-09 19:54 -0700]:
I emailed Phil Gold (creator of the awesome shield rendering) about this
almost a month ago, but he never responded so this hasn't been fixed.
Er, sorry about that. I've been extremely busy for about the past two
months, and
I don't think the extra complexity of the shields slows down the time it
takes to render them. But the tiles themselves on the shield map take way
longer to load than on osm.org (which is why I really want the shields on
the main OSM website), which I guess is because of a slower tileserver.
Hello,
I was just wondering what's been going on with rendering the highway
shields. I haven't heard anything about it for a while. The last time
anything was mentioned about this was in late-July when it was announced
that the tiles were put up on the OSM-US server--and that was only meant to
be
+1
In a conversation with a King County (Washington) employee, we discussed
his project to create tiles from OSM to use as basemaps for King County and
hopefully others. While he doesn't need our tile server, the shields would
really enhance the basemaps.
On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 7:54 PM, Evin
(sorry if this makes it twice - I tried posting from my other account
but got flak from Outlook)
Yes that would be really interesting to push forward. To my mind this
should be a default tile layer on osm.us (not that we have a slippy
map on there today at all – but we should).
The layer still
The tiles on the OSM-US server are up and running. The preview was on
Phil's home server that had limited bandwidth. A better UI to the tile
layer can be found here with standard map controls and a simple search
feature to jump to locations:
http://bl.ocks.org/ToeBee/raw/6119134/
I have talked
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