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<div>What about apps? Most people use a phone, not a computer while walking, so I feel like that is more important.</div><div><br></div><div>-- <br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>27 Dec 2020, 16:52 by talk-gb@openstreetmap.org:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Hello everyone,<br></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">To follow up my earlier message about developing an OSMUK walkers' map, I have now got (a very basic and rough and ready version of) the project off the ground, thanks to an offer of hosting from OSMUK via Adam Hoyle.<br></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The demo is at<br></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">http://35.177.54.109/<br></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">(sorry, no HTTPS or domain name yet)<br></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The github repo is:<br></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a id="LPlnk819665" href="https://github.com/osm-uk/walkers-map" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/osm-uk/walkers-map</a><br></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">It's very unlikely that I will be able to develop all of this myself, due partly to time constraints and partly because other people will have stronger UX, web design and cartography skills than myself. So contributions are particularly welcome; if you want
to contribute do feel free to checkout the repo and submit a PR. <br></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">A bit of technical detail: it's using the Tangram client-side vector renderer (<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="font" style="font-family:Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt">https://github.com/tangrams/tangram) together with a quick-hack roll-my-own
MVT tile server, which thanks to recent developments in PostGIS is actually very easy. As it's a rough-and-ready demo, no attempt at optimisation has been made yet, also the server is quite low-spec so it might struggle under strain.</span></span></span><br></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="font" style="font-family:Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"></span></span></span><br></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="font" style="font-family:Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt">Tangram uses a YAML style file which is pretty easy and intuitive to understand and work on; this is available in the repo.</span></span></span><br></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="font" style="font-family:Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"></span></span></span><br></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="font" style="font-family:Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt">Contours are from OS Open Data and were imported into PostGIS and are served the same way as the OSM layers.</span></span></span><br></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="font" style="font-family:Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"></span></span></span><br></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="font" style="font-family:Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt">Nick</span></span></span><br></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div><div id="Signature"><div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt" dir="ltr" id="divtagdefaultwrapper"><div style="margin:0px"><br></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div> </body>
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