> Is this the sort of thing you had in mind > (http://maps3.org.uk/tiles/historic_layers.html)?
That looks great, thanks for sharing! Joseph On 15 January 2012 22:44, Graham Jones <grahamjones...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> >>> This requires a renderer / display set up that allows the use to select >>> what features you want and filter out those you don't. >>> >>> The rendrering engine will require significant enhancement to support >>> selectable layers unless I have missed something. >> >> > > Hi Mick, > > Is this the sort of thing you had in mind > (http://maps3.org.uk/tiles/historic_layers.html)? > > It has a VERY crude filtering of prehistoric / Roman / medieval and 'modern' > historic features, and an even rougher rendering of those features. (to do > it properly we will need either civlization/period tags, or start/end dates, > and spend a lot more time on the presentation than I have!). > > But, there is a layer switcher on the right hand side of the map where you > can select a base map (I used the standard OSM rendering and cycle map, > because I thought that if we do it for real, we would want a topographic > base layer more than a motorway network?) > Each layer is rendered a bit differently so you can see them change when you > switch them on and off. > > Note that I have not rendered much of the map - it will get very slow as you > zoom in, because it will start to render the map on demand, and my database > seems a bit slow for some reason.... > > There are obviously lots of improvements - at the very least a link to an > editor like we have on the brewmap, so you can correct things that are > tagged incorrectly, then different icons for different types of features > within the layers (they are all the same at the moment). > > There is a 'how it works' section at the bottom of the map if you are > curious about how I have done it. > > Hope that helps. > > > Graham. > -- > Graham Jones > Hartlepool, UK. > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
