On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Graham Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have put some thoughts on what this system would look like on my OSM user > page (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Grahamjones#Speciality_Maps). > My question is whether many people would find this useful? Or has someone > already done it but I have not found it? The guys over at wikimedia do this with their toolserver (amongst other things) - producing both custom background layers and custom overlays. For example, http://toolserver.org/~osm/styles/?lat=52.49436&lon=13.28916&zoom=12&layers=0000F0FT0000F0FFFB000T ... is a black and white mapnik, with hillshading and power distribution overlays. Documentation is a bit sparse but there's some at https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/OpenStreetMap Anyone can develop a map style and ask to get it rendered. As part of the toolserver project many of the tools needed for this kind of thing were developed / used - e.g. hstore in osm2pgsql. You should certainly dig into what they are doing, what kind of hardware they are using and so on. Cheers, Andy _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
