Steve, you and everyone else whose worked hard on the cartography aspects of the Mapnik layer deserve a big pat on the back. But your note clearly demonstrates that we really should not have the Mapnik stylesheet maintained and managed by one or two people. The other thread on the list about the map view further reinforces this.
I'm really wondering if it wouldn't be a good time to get a separate project kicked off that's separate from OSM core. One that is specifically aimed at developing methods of layering and filtering the OSM data to produce customisable maps. It's clear there are loads of people that want to put their oar in on it and maybe taking it out of a core OSM function might free up ideas and development. Obviously new and cool ideas can get incorporated back at OSM render central but at least having cartography development outside of central control would stir up the pot and take some of the heat out of the issue within OSM itself. I assume the big problem doing this is getting suitable bandwidth for a tile server? That's something we could probably put the feelers out on if there was enough interested individuals to kick it all off. Would a dev box set up to do this make a difference for instance? Andy A has done all this with a few others for the cycle map, why not enable a bigger group to do the same generally with support from OSM to make it happen. Views? Cheers Andy >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:talk- >[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jon Burgess >Sent: 28 July 2008 11:12 PM >To: Steve Chilton >Cc: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Milestone > >On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 18:47 +0100, Steve Chilton wrote: >> Just noticed that this weekend it is exactly a year since I submitted my >first mapnik style patch. >> In the following 12 months I have submitted a total of 45 patches with >multiple additions/changes (nearly 1 per week). >> In that time the style file (XML) has moved from 1641 lines to 5220 >lines. > >I do appreciate the effort you put into the styles. I personally think >the maps look really amazing. In many places they are better than >commercially available maps. > >>From Wednesday this week we should also start seeing the result of a >couple of other fixes implemented this week:- > >I just fixed a bug in the core Mapnik code which was causing of some of >the mountain peaks to be missing text labels. If you refresh your >browser at[1] you should see most/all of the peaks now appear with >names. The bug caused many POI names not containing a space to be >absent. > >The removal of the route names which started appearing on the map a >couple of weeks ago[2][3]. This error was caused when extra support was >added for route relations needed by the cycle map etc. > >Improved multipolygon support. For several months there have been >complaints that Mapnik has not been following the new tagging rules for >multipolygon relations[4]. I've added code to handle the obvious tag >combinations in osm2pgsql and this seems to work in the examples I've >tested[5][6]. > > Jon > > >[1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=54.5761&lon=- >3.234&zoom=13&layers=B00FTF >[2] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2008-July/027991.html >[3] http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=43.6978&lon=-79.31117&zoom=17 >[4] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Relation:multipolygon >[5] http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=54.5836&lon=- >3.1445&zoom=13&layers=B00FTF >[6] >http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~bobkare/utilslippy/?zoom=13&lat=59.88743&lon= >10.87121&layers=0FB0 > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >talk mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk > >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com >Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.5.6/1578 - Release Date: 28/07/2008 >5:13 PM _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
