After close to a month... no news.. so... will this happens or not? On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Igor Brejc <igor.br...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > Let me just add one note to John's comments about Maperitive: it already > "out of the box" supports 19 zoom levels, but you can modify the > configuration and set the max zoom to a higher > level: http://maperitive.net/docs/manual/Advanced_Configuration.html > Igor > > On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 2:18 PM, john whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> 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 <pavithra...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> On 17 May 2010 17:32, Gregory <nomoregra...@googlemail.com> 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 >>> talk@openstreetmap.org >>> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> talk@openstreetmap.org >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >> > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >
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