[OSM-dev] central elemstyles/MapFeatures.xml

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Mon Nov 6 22:35:28 GMT 2006 

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On 11/6/06, Dubravko Penezic <dpenezic at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi 80n,
>
> I am not expert fore XML, but in standard daily work use a lot CSS and
> found very valuable if css is in separate fail.
>
> Is it some list, place where I may submit/tell some
> bug/feature/dificulties connected to osmarender ?
>
> Dubravko
>
> On 11/6/06, 80n <80n80n at gmail.com> wrote:
> > An earlier version version of Osmarender did have a mechanism to allow
> an
> > external style sheet file to be referenced.  I think it caused problems
> with
> > some tools because I didn't implement it properly, so it got dropped.
> >
> > It should be easy to re-introduce this.  The styles are separate from
> the
> > rules for this exact reason.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 11/6/06, Dubravko Penezic < dpenezic at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi Joerg,
> > >
> > > if I understand correctly You sugest to put two files in one like is
> > > now in osmarender ?
> > >
> > > I dont think it is good idea.
> > >
> > > Right now If I would like to have separet color schema for rendering,
> > > I must change everything in osm-map-features.xml file and lost
> > > originaly set colore.
> > >
> > > That are very unpractical. But if you include style file like a link
> > > in osm-map-features.xml , that will help a lot. With simply
> > > configuration on begining you may change color schema, same is with
> > > taging file.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Dubravko
> > >
> > > On 11/6/06, Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany)
> > > <openstreetmap at ostertag.name> wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > Is there a chance, that we combine the functionality of the
> elemstyles
> > and
> > > > mapfeatures files? I think this would be very important to save very
> > much
> > > > time.
> > > >
> > > > So I would really need (positive ;-) __ FEEDBACK __ from all
> developers
> > which
> > > > are working at any kind of rendering engine for OSM-Data.
> > > >
> > > > For the first I would suggest that every Programm needing to do
> > rendering,
> > > > does use a file placed at
> > > >
> > http://svn.openstreetmap.org/data/MapFeatures.xml
> > > > This file must have a content which can be completely parsed by any
> > normal
> > > > XML::Parser.
> > > > I think the two files
> > > >         data/freemap.xml
> > > >         data/elemstyles.xml
> > > > are a good start. But I'd like to only have one central MapFeatures
> file
> > which
> > > > is used as a basis for all editors and renderers. This way all
> OSM-Maps
> > have
> > > > the same look and feel. All Editors would base on the same
> > taggin-scheme, ...
> > > > And not everyone who does rendering code has to write his own
> > > > elemstyles/mapfeatures/rendercontrol/... .xml-File. I
> > want to use this file
> > > > too for gpsdrive and osm-pdf-atlas. I already did some tests with
> > > > osm-pdf-atlas and I managed to add icons to the pdf. But I think it
> > doesn't
> > > > make sense to start a new MapFeatures.xml file for osm-pdf-atlas (or
> > > > gpsdrive).
> > > > So this is one more reason, why I'd like to have one central
> > MapFeatures.xml
> > > > File with all the rules in there.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I think using the Format of the data/freemap.xml File seems like the
> > easiest
> > > > start.
> > > >
> > > > I then would add some more tags:
> > > > description_en: International english description
> > > >                 manatory
> > > > description_uk: British english description
> > > >                 optional
> > > > description_de: German description
> > > >                 optional
> > > >         .... other languages by there country code ...
> > > >
> > > > country: The country where this feature is primarily used.
> > > >         If you don't specify any it's used worldwide.
> > > >
> > > > I would then move the rendering stuff to a subkey 'rendering'. Every
> > rule can
> > > > hold more than one of these '<rendering>'-keys. This would be used
> to
> > have
> > > > different rendering rules for different scales.
> > > > In the example you would show the icon and an annotation for the
> lower
> > > > resolutions(1:1 ... 1:10000). These annotations would be the tag
> > name=... and
> > > > the tag regioncode=... .
> > > > But if you want to render an overview (scale 1:10000 ...
> 1:100000)you
> > would
> > > > only render the icon without any text.
> > > >
> > > > <mapfeatures>
> > > >  <rule>
> > > >   <condition k="class" v="suburb" />
> > > >   <country>de</country>
> > > >   <poi_type>city.small</poi_type>
> > > >   <description_en>Suburbs smaller than 1000 people</description_en>
> > > >   <description_de>Suburbs smaller than 1000 people</description_en>
> > > >   <description_gb>Suburbs smaller than 1000 people</description_en>
> > > >   <description_long_en>All Suburbs smaller than 1000
> > people</description_en>
> > > >   <rendering>
> > > >     <scale_min>1  </scale_min>
> > > >     <scale_max>10000  </scale_max>
> > > >     <icon annotate="name,regioncode" src="place.png" />
> > > >   </rendering>
> > > >   <rendering>
> > > >     <scale_min>10000  </scale_min>
> > > >     <scale_max>100000  </scale_max>
> > > >     <icon src="city/small.png" />
> > > >   </rendering>
> > > >  </rule>
> > > >  <rule>
> > > >         ...
> > > >  </rule>
> > > > </mapfeatures>
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Jörg (Germany, Munich)
> > > >
> > > > http://www.ostertag.name/
> > > > TeamSpeak2: ts2.ostertag.name, user: tweety, Channel: "GPS Drive"
> > > > irc://irc.oftc.net/#osm
> > > > Tel.: +49 89 420950304
> > > > Skype: skype-1106 at ostertag.name
> > > >
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