On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 11:52:30AM +1100, Steve Bennett wrote: > > Second comment: As always, its not that easy. You can't just read osm.xml. > > At least you have to take the osm2pgsql config into account. Also you > > probably > > > > Sure, can you give me a few pointers? I haven't got Mapnik or running.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osm2pgsql http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/utils/export/osm2pgsql/ > > People can check it, improve it > > > Well, improve the generation method. Hand tweaking would be the wrong > approach. Thats what I meant. > > and get some experience about its usefulness. > > > > Just an idea: If you really want to check what the renderer renders and > > what > > not, how about creating a osm test file with all the different tags ins > > there, > > send it through the renderer and check whether the bitmap is empty. If it > > contains something in the right spot, you know the tag is supported. This > > is > > totally renderer and style agnostic reasonably easy to automate. > > > > Yes...but from what I gather, getting Mapnik installed locally is quite > complex. Or maybe I'm confusing it with getting slippymap/tileserver > installed. I'm new to all this. Its not that difficult if you have some Linux background. The most difficult part is getting the database setup right, the a little fiddly. But it has to be done only once for this idea. :-) Jochen -- Jochen Topf [email protected] http://www.remote.org/jochen/ +49-721-388298 _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
