[OSM-dev] mapnik style stuff

Nick Whitelegg nick at hogweed.org
Sun Nov 19 09:52:46 GMT 2006


On Saturday 18 Nov 2006 22:50, you wrote:
> > Once we've got the new slippy map covering the whole world and stable,
> > hhat would people feel  about adding SRTM contours at scales around
> > 1:25000 and 1:50000, so that at that scale we can provide maps suited to
> > outdoor users? Much like multimap does at the moment.
>
> I think contours would be useful for the countryside data, but should
> probably be added as separate layer that people can enable in
> OpenLayers if they wish to...
>
>
> Cheers,
> Dan

Yes, good idea.

One thing we'll need to do for that to work properly, though, is to have areas 
and other OSM data in separate layers, as maps will only look sensible if 
they're layered areas -> contours -> roads etc.

Of course this can wait until we have the map of the whole world up...

Nick




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