great idea, wonderful web page! mike On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:07 AM, Michal Migurski <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I've been quietly updating Tile Drawer (http://tiledrawer.com) over the > past month, and I've introduced a few new ways that it can interact with > TileMill (http://mapbox.com/tilemill). > > TileMill works especially well with shapefile data, so I've added a final > step in the Tile Drawer setup process that generates fresh shapefiles of > your selected area. You can use Tile Drawer as a data pre-processor for use > with TileMill, essentially ignoring its rendering functionality and > shutting down the virtual machine after it's finished cranking out a > selection of zipped shapefiles in /usr/local/tiledrawer/progress. Oliver > Tonnhofer's Imposm creates data especially well-suited for use in Tilemill, > so I've made sure to include it in the process. > > In the other direction, you can now use your TileMill styles in Tile > Drawer directly, as long as you stick to a specific shapefile naming scheme > and provide a zipped copy of your Mapnik 2.0 XML stylesheet to the startup > script. I've made four selected cities available in the correct shapefile > naming scheme available here: > > http://stuff.tiledrawer.com/sample-data-san-francisco.zip > http://stuff.tiledrawer.com/sample-data-london.zip > http://stuff.tiledrawer.com/sample-data-berlin.zip > http://stuff.tiledrawer.com/sample-data-tokyo.zip > > I'm just putting finishing touches on all of this so documentation remains > skimpy, but there's more info on my blog here: > > http://mike.teczno.com/notes/tile-drawer-tilemill.html > > -mike. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > michal migurski- [email protected] > 415.558.1610 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > -- James Michael DuPont Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://flossk.org
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