Have a look at Maperitive. Because the processing is done on the local machine it gives you much more control. I've been playing with .bat files, you can run them from a desktop icon, to select some POIs and display them but not others. Being in Canada I also use the technique to switch the display language, only works where the name:fr is available.
The other thing you can do is render from a local file so no internet connection is required. You do have to change the rules to point to local icons though. Cheerio John On 17 May 2010 12:44, pavithran <[email protected]> wrote: > On 17 May 2010 17:32, Gregory <[email protected]> wrote: > > Now a lot of places are full of pro-mappers, we are doing house numbers, > > shops, football pitch lines... > > Do we need an extra zoom level? > > YES and I was thinking of posting about it but waited because I want > to learn about simple tiles generation for small area using osmarender > (where I could set my own zoom level and was suggested by amm at diary > http://bit.ly/8Z6ieY ) . Openstreetmap could enrich the map experience > like never before, now that some experienced mappers have started > mapping shops inside a shopping mall . > > It definitely makes mapping easy in developing areas where most of the > shops are situated side by side in a small area which is in contrast > to UK/european shops which occupy large areas . > > Here is a small Tale of two shops : One nice lane in a bazaar of a > small town I found two bakeries . One lies almost opposite to other . > The nice bakery is called 'Taj bakery' other one is 'Golden Bakery ' > Mapnik in a lower zoom level shows it as Golden bakery . I actually > zoomed to a higher zoom level witha hope to see both bakeries . > Unfortunately it could show only golden bakery :( Seeing it with data > only shows the POI . I stopped mapping all the bazaars because Indian > streets unfortunately are constructed as bazaars with sometimes > collection of similar selling item. And I am forced to NOT map > selectively some shop when I am mapping those bazaars . Selecting some > shop as important and some shop as not important is very daunting task > :( Higher population areas have close knit shops I am wondering why > someone has not demanded for detailed mapping in those areas. > > Coming to extra processing power & bandwidth I think its time to move > ahead . I think that atleast osmarender which has a lower zoom level > when compared to mapnik and should immediately set to mapnik zoom > level ( just a matter of personal liking towards osmarender ) > > > > > -- > pavithran sakamuri > http://look-pavi.blogspot.com > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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