Richard Fairhurst wrote: >Sent: 29 July 2008 12:30 AM >To: Talk Openstreetmap >Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Milestone > >Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: > >> 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. > >Well, there was a discussion on IRC today among some of the [EMAIL PROTECTED] >chaps >along the lines of "what we really need is a benevolent dictator, like >the Mapnik stylesheet has". I've got a lot of sympathy with that - >most of the reason the Mapnik layer looks so cool is because it's >driven by one person with a clear vision and genuine cartographic >skill, rather than "ooh, I want to see pound shops on the map, let me >add my nice MS Paint icon". > >(For the avoidance of doubt I'm not accusing [EMAIL PROTECTED] of this, but >I've >seen enough committee-designed maps that do look like an utter >bollocks.) > >> 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? > >Amazon EC2/S3. > >With a readymade image containing an OSM rendering toolchain - Mapnik, >osm2pgsql and TileCache - plus some instructions on the wiki, we'd >have a "roll your own cartography kit". A WYSIWYG stylesheet editor >would be the icing on the cake but not necessary at the start. I am >way out of my depth here technically, but wouldn't that be so, so cool? >
+1, very cool and something I'd try my hand at. So how might we kick something off, even if it's a bit too challenging for some of us, me included? Suggestions welcome. Cheers Andy _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
