Steve, I didn't render a whole map using Meridian2, but made a couple of examples to satisfy my curiosity here: http://nerdytoad.blogspot.com/2010/09/mapnik-and-osopendata.html.
They give a bit of a feel for what the data looks like. Graham On 11 March 2011 16:34, Steve Doerr <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/03/2011 14:55, Andy Allan wrote: > >> On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Steve Doerr >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> > A halfway house between bulk imports and ignoring OS OpenData entirely >>> would >>> be providing background images in the editors. I don't see why this >>> shouldn't be done for pretty much all the OS data sets. (I admit, though, >>> that I have no idea of the technical complexity that would be involved.) >>> >> We've got OS StreetView and the ITO Locator layer in Potlatch2 >> already, and they are very useful. I'd expect some of the vector >> products when the p2 vector background handling is more mature. >> >> Are there any in particular you were thinking of? >> > > Well, part of my point was that we non-technical mappers need to see the > data sets overlaying OSM data first to know if they're useful. That's why > I'd love there to be a quick way to get them all there first. But if I had > to choose I'd probably start with Boundary Line. I sort of have a feeling > Code-Point Open would be useful, but I can't immediately say why. It's clear > that people with the technical skills are making good use of the VectorMap > District. I'm also curious to see Meridian 2, although it's apparently very > simplified geometry. Maybe there's even value in seeing the gazetteer names > overlaid on OSM data, though with only 1 km resolution it's perhaps not > going to add much. > > -- > Steve > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > -- Graham Jones Hartlepool, UK.
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