<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 11:35 PM, Richard Mann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richard.mann.westoxford@googlemail.com">richard.mann.westoxford@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote">But I'd also like there to be an open, straight Mapnik (ie no contour overlay and no neat transparent route overlays) cycle-oriented map, to be improved by the crowd. (Ditto a public transport map). I think a *few* of these would be good for the project, to allow for some crowd rendering, and to give a basis for individualistic/variation rendering.
<div><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Would someone mind explaining the differences between the Mapnik rendering and the OCM rendering? So far we have seen mention of:<br>- specific stylesheet (duh)<br>- topographic overlay<br>
- pretty, non-standard rendering of route relations<br><br>What else is there? That route rendering capability would be nice in the standard mapnik, wouldn't it?<br><br>What I'm getting at, is how hard would it be to get to a point where mapnik could render cycle maps alongside the standard OSM ("car maps"?)? Is there any prospect of doing this on existing hardware, or would we need more funding?<br>
<br>I'm just not really aware of how all this magic happens at the moment, would love it if someone could fill me (and the rest of this thread) in.<br><br>Steve<br></div></div><br>