oops, I missed the "standalone" part in your message
On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 5:26 AM, Marc Gemis <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.openpoimap.org > http://www.openlinkmap.org > http://www.flosm.de/en/POI-map.html > > or look at the complete list at > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/List_of_OSM-based_services > > regards > > m > > On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 3:58 AM, Wuzzy <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi! >> >> I was wondering if there is some standalone application (preferable for >> PC) to view OSM data as a map, but dynamically and locally (not >> from some random computer on the Internet) rendered. >> >> We already have a large number of websites which show OSM data in all >> sorts of different styles and this is pretty cool. But I think all of >> them do not show OSM in its full glory, and they are all tailored to >> a specific use case. >> The www.openstreetmap.org style is already pretty nice IMO but this is >> of course not useful for all use cases. >> >> Also most of the websites them use a pre-rendered “base layer” and just >> put symbols on top of that. This is not what I want. >> Therefore, the KDE program “Marble” does not count. It is able to show >> OSM, but it's just the pre-rendered default layers of >> www.openstreetmap.org. >> JOSM kinda does what I want, but it is obviously not tailored towards >> *viewing* map data for everyday usage. >> >> What I want is an application which renders OSM data directly and based >> on configurable user settings, i.e. switching on and off certain >> features (like country borders) is as simple as clicking a checkbox. >> >> As an analogy, Google Earth has such a feature where you can toggle >> some map features, but it is not based on OSM, obviously and also it is >> rather limited in that sense. >> >> So I wonder, is there already such a tool which has such features? Or >> at least a *similar* tool. It would be very cool if the tool can render >> from OSM data directly, but if some manual conversion would be needed, >> that would be okay. >> >> I should give some examples: >> The program could have a checkbox somewhere to toggle country borders. >> So you click the checkbox and they disappear. Or you could have a map >> where only lanterns or whatever are displayed. Or a map where only the >> surface or landuse types are rendered. Etc. etc. Everything should be >> created dynamically. >> >> The reason why I am looking for such a tool is because I think it would >> be really useful in many aspects. >> >> In case no such program exists, I wonder if there has been made any >> attempt to create such a program (at least). >> >> -- >> Wuzzy >> XMPP: [email protected] >> E-Mail: [email protected] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
