Thanks Andre,<div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im"><br></div>
A little bit late, but I have written some wiki-Pages documentating my own Mapnik-Styles:<br>
<br></blockquote></div><div>For quite a while I have been thinking of trying to set up something to share tips, tricks and examples for producing maps from OSM data - we have tools to make the rendering toolchain and quite a few sets of instructions for setting up the toolchain, but we do not have a lot of guidance on writing stylesheets for OSM data. Although the main mapnik style is really good, it is so complex that it is not good as a worked example for someone to learn from.</div>
<div><br></div><div>For example, there are quite a few renderers that have different ways of writing styles, and even if you pick mapnik, there are at least three different ways of writing stylesheets (XML, Cascadenik and Cairo).</div>
<div><br></div><div>I have been experimenting with Cairo lately, because this appears to lend itself to writing more 'elegant' styles (although the layer definitions remain ugly), and storing the files on github (so I can get them back when I break them...) [<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; "><span class="failedUrl" style="word-wrap: break-word; "><a href="https://github.com/jones139/Mapnik-OSM-Styles/tree/master/three_villages_map">https://github.com/jones139/Mapnik-OSM-Styles/tree/master/three_villages_map</a></span></span>.if anyone is interested]. I have also got bits and pieces of documentation that I have written in response to specific questions (e.g. <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/jones139/rendering-openstreetmap-data-using-mapnik">http://www.slideshare.net/jones139/rendering-openstreetmap-data-using-mapnik</a>).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Would anyone be interested in sharing examples of styles they have produced etc.? I think there is a 'stylesheets' wiki page that we could update with a set of links for starters, but I could see it develop into something a bit more detailed with tutorials etc. I will make a start on it if people think it would be useful.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div><br></div><div><br>Graham.</div><br>-- <br>Graham Jones<div>Hartlepool, UK.</div><br>
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