On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 6:47 PM, Steve Chilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So, if anyone feels like getting their hands dirty and doing some > collaborative work on mapnik style improvements then just drop me a line. I've spent quite a while making maps based on the osm.xml file - not just the cycle map, but others too - and it's a bit of a pain* to maintain a fork or even just use the main one as a base to work from. I wonder if making this easier will build more of a community around the mapnik stylesheet and therefore get more things fed back in. So what does everyone think about raising the minimum requirements to mapnik + libxml xmparser support**? For the basics, that would allow defining all the colours in one place at the top of the file (and only use each hex code once***). Most of what I've seen people wanting to do is fiddle with the colours and it's currently pretty hard to do, and a pain to keep in sync. Beyond that, we could look at splitting layers into separate files, again for ease of following changes since diffs of large repetitive files can be erratic (and editing too, I would suspect, since I often lose track of whether I'm in the middle of a roads-casing or minor-roads-fill stylename). Thoughts? Andy * Understatement ** http://trac.mapnik.org/wiki/ManagingLargeXmlFiles *** for example: "grep '809bc0' osm.xml | wc -l" alone gives 30 recurrences _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
