I contacted the guys at MapOSMatic to give some feedback. I felt that while it was a superb tool at some zoom levels (eg outputting a map of Makati area), that it lacked a bit when you zoomed in closer, or out further.
Here is a reply from David Mentre at MapOSMatic. Development is evidently under way, and it looks set to get even better. I wish I was a coder ... Jim ----------------------------------------------------------- Hello Jim, Many thanks for your very positive feedback! 2011/3/30 Jim Morgan <[email protected]>: > > So, it seems that the tool works brilliantly if you select an area of the > > correct zoom level. But if you go Above or Below that level, then results > > are not so good. In fact, we are using a fixed zoom level (I can't remember which one right now). > > I'd like to suggest a variable zoom level for your tool. When people select > > an area on the map, take a note of the zoom level. Then render at +3 zoom > > levels (for example). Then the detail will always be consistent with the > > area selected. Our intent was to provide a certain level of details on all maps, whatever is the zoom level of a map. But we agree that this approach might not satisfy all use cases. > > Even better would be to allow people to select the detail level (+1, +2, +3 > > etc). I have added a task for this, so the feature wish is recorded: http://savannah.nongnu.org/task/index.php?11038 > > And the icing on the cake would be to allow people to include various items > > via checkboxes. Road names, Restaurants/Bars, Accommodation, Landmarks, > > Shopping etc. Regarding the choice of various items, we are working on it, we a set of predefined stylesheets. You can see an example of it on our development version: http://dev.maposmatic.org/ > > Just thinking out loud here, and hoping to provoke some ideas. Is the code > > for MapOSMatic open sourced, so that I could hack at it? Of course! :-) http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/maposmatic/ We have also a mailing list, an IRC channel, etc. All patches are welcome! ;-) > > Or is there a facility for referencing your own rendering style-sheets to > > alter the way things are rendered. Or, if neither of these are possible, do > > you have a small HowTo on how you went about creating MapOSMatic. I'd be > > very interested ... As I said, the next version of MapOSMatic will have a set of predefined stylesheet. But even with current MapOSMatic code, if you install it on your own computer you can tailor the Mapnik rendering stylesheet at will. Best regards, david -- datalude: information security e: [email protected] Philippines: +63 2 403 1311 / mob: +63 917 849 3939 Hong Kong: +852 6840 6693 w: http://www.datalude.com/ _______________________________________________ talk-ph mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph
