Graham,
One thing you could usefully document – an in an easy-to-read, visual, engaging way rather than dense jargon-filled wiki pages – and publicise is how to use built-in support in OpenLayers. For example, it’s not all that hard to download some interesting data via XAPI (if it were a bit more reliable) and display it as a layer in an OpenLayers. A little bit of code can also provide a popup bubble containing the tags associated with the feature. This is a good deal easier than rendering a new set of map tiles. Here are a couple of examples: http://tomchance.dev.openstreetmap.org/trees.html http://tomchance.dev.openstreetmap.org/emptyshops.html If the data set isn't too large, this would work fine for maps of canals and locks as well. You can use CloudMade's style editor to create a suitable set of map tiles, too, if the default OpenStreetMap/OpenCycleMap/etc. tiles don't suit your needs. Tom On 22 February 2011 13:03, Graham Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Andy, > I will certainly have a look at that, thank you - I have not seen that > service. > > I am hoping to make this more than just a hosting service though. This has > been reinforced by a couple of off-list converstations I have had where > there is a good chunk of making it easy for people to develop their own > styles (without the overhead of setting up a rendering tool-chain), and most > importantly providing straightforward documentation on how to do it. > > Maybe I should think a bit more about documentation first rather than > concentrating so much on code! > > Graham. > > On 22 February 2011 10:19, Andy Allan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 >> > > > > -- > Graham Jones > Hartlepool, UK. > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > -- http://tom.acrewoods.net http://twitter.com/tom_chance
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