Re: [OSM-talk] Which renderer for high quality, printed cycle map?
2013/1/31 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: Hi all, We'd like to produce a high quality bike map, to be printed. I'm looking at the various renderers and wondering if anyone has a recommendation? I don't have a recommendation for particular renderer, but if you'd like to get inspiration for the actual style, we (Prague by bike bicycle advocacy group) have created a mapnik based style for online cycle map [1]. It shows different surface type (e.g. squared texture for cobblestones), cycle route relations are displayed with varying line style depending on the surface quality (solid vs. dashed) and lighter colour for primary highways and darker for tertiary highways or separated cycleways. The map legend [2] is in Czech only but Google translate deals with it ok. The style itself is available on Github [3] Vaclav [1] http://mapa.prahounakole.cz [2] http://prahounakole.cz/kudy-po-praze/mapa/legenda/ [3] https://github.com/auto-mat/rendering-PNK-ZM/tree/master/Devel/mapnik ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Which renderer for high quality, printed cycle map?
On 01/02/2013 14:56, Václav Řehák wrote: We (Prague by bike bicycle advocacy group) have created a mapnik based style for online cycle map [1]. It shows different surface type (e.g. squared texture for cobblestones) [..] http://mapa.prahounakole.cz Nice and useful use of texturing - I like it a lot, especially as a roller-skater : no other map style I know makes the dreaded cobblestones so discreetly obvious. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
[OSM-talk] Which renderer for high quality, printed cycle map?
Hi all, We'd like to produce a high quality bike map, to be printed. I'm looking at the various renderers and wondering if anyone has a recommendation? Requirements - looks good (eg, labels on wiggly labels aren't too wiggly, some ability to avoid label clashes) - customisable rendering (MapCSS would be a bonus) - some nice bike-friendly styles already available? - rendering to SVG would be very useful, would give us a chance to hand-edit the final rendering. - Python-based is a bonus I'm open to the idea of using existing online services, if any are customisable enough. Something like MapOSMatic doesn't work, as the style is fixed, and it can't render a big enough area. Contenders so far, from glancing through the wiki: - Mapnik, obviously. Doesn't support MapCSS, but Komap might help? - Maperitive, also no MapCSS. - Ceyx. Still no stable release? Hard to tell what state it's in. Pros/cons of each? Are there others to look at? I can't find a good list anywhere (there's http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Renderers_feature_list but lots of those seem old, abandoned, etc). Thanks, Steve ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Which renderer for high quality, printed cycle map?
On 31/01/13 22:06, Steve Bennett wrote: Hi all, We'd like to produce a high quality bike map, to be printed. I'm looking at the various renderers and wondering if anyone has a recommendation? Requirements - looks good (eg, labels on wiggly labels aren't too wiggly, some ability to avoid label clashes) - customisable rendering (MapCSS would be a bonus) - some nice bike-friendly styles already available? - rendering to SVG would be very useful, would give us a chance to hand-edit the final rendering. - Python-based is a bonus I'm open to the idea of using existing online services, if any are customisable enough. Something like MapOSMatic doesn't work, as the style is fixed, and it can't render a big enough area. Contenders so far, from glancing through the wiki: - Mapnik, obviously. Doesn't support MapCSS, but Komap might help? - Maperitive, also no MapCSS. - Ceyx. Still no stable release? Hard to tell what state it's in. Pros/cons of each? Are there others to look at? I can't find a good list anywhere (there's http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Renderers_feature_list but lots of those seem old, abandoned, etc). Thanks, Steve Take a look at Tilemill. Under the skin it uses the power of Mapnik (which uses AGG for subpixel line rendering). Carto, Tilemill's definition script, is sort of CSS-like. It allows export to SVG and other type, including Mapnik XML that then allows a full tile set to be rendered for a given area if a slippy map is needed. The documentation is a bit fragmented, but is getting better. I load an extract (often from Geofabrik's excellent downloads) into Postgresql database and render from there, but there are other options too. I recommend it. -- Cheers, Chris user: chillly ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
