Artem Pavlenko wrote: > > > Mapnik is that tool and it's also free and easy to use ;) . It is > used in many exciting projects to generate custom maps e.g > > http://www.everyblock.com/ > http://www.placebase.com/ > http://www.mysociety.org/2007/more-travel-maps/ > > > >> I believe Kosmos wants to fill that gap. >> > > Kosmos is win32 only and it also relies on inferior GDI+ rendering. > > I don't want to start "which rendering engine/tool is better" debate. Just my observation: I started developing Kosmos because I felt there was a gap between "ordinary" (no derogatory meaning) OSM users wanting to see their local OSM data immediately upon creating it and heavy-duty rendering engines like Mapnik and [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't mean to criticize or anything, but I think installing Mapnik is quite an undertaking for a non-developer (just by looking at the Mapnik installation procedure). And yes, Kosmos is (currently, but hopefully not for long) win32 only and it does use inferior GDI+ rendering. But I think it serves its purpose (well, at least for me it does and that's enough motivation for me to continue improving it :) ). But I do appreciate hard work of other people on OSM.
Regards, Igor -- http://igorbrejc.net _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
