On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 7:52 AM, Lennard <[email protected]> wrote: > > Or you could simply apply the shields to the geometries created by route > > relations, greatly simplifying the ref parsing crap. Since the tile > server > > is running Mapnik trunk-ish now, you should be able to use the SVG > > symbolizers (which should allow you to specify the contents of an SVG > > using > > a DB value rather than having separate SVGs for each shield). > > That's also possible with non-SVG symbols, and I'm not so sure we can > dynamically scale SVG symbols based on text size reported by postgresql. > > However, the osm.org tile server may be running a very recent trunk > version of mapnik2, we're not targeting any of the features available in > mapnik2 yet. > > The problem is two-fold: > 1) One of the stylesheet developers uses Windows. There is currently no > mapnik2 Windows build. I think one of the GSoC projects this summer will > be about making a solid Windows build. > 2) Switching over the stylesheet and using new features without > announcement will mean other tile servers could be falling over left and > right. We should give them some notice and time to prepare. I'd love to > move to mapnik2 proper, but let's do it the right way. This is not exactly > a 0.6->0.7 switch. Lots of dependencies need to be updated as well. > > Perhaps we need to leave osm.xml as is, and create a clone to move to > mapnik2 syntax/features.
I was not suggesting that we switch anything on the OSM tile server at this point. I was trying to get Nathan to the point where he could experiment with showing shields on his local machine.
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