[OSM-dev] OSM + renderer

[Artem Pavlenko]

Replying to myself:P
I  spent some time last weekend fiddling with oxford-2006-10-22.osm and 
here is the result:

http://mapnik.org/tiling/oxford/

Cheers,
Artem

Artem Pavlenko wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Firstly,  thanks for all your efforts to provide free street level 
> data!  Great  project!
>
> I was following the thread about rendering maps and I thought I could 
> contribute here as well.  I'm the developer of a c++/python mapping 
> toolkit (http://mapnik.org) which amongst other things can render 
> high-quality maps from various datasets. I had a very brief chat with 
> SteveC at the UK mash-up and I think he was into the idea to try Mapnik 
> to render OSM.
>
> Here is list of some relevant  features of Mapnik:
> 1. Anti-aliasing
> 2. Rule based styling/filtering (modelled on OGC SLD but there is much 
> more..)
> 3. Automatic text/label/shield placement resolution
> 4. Text following lines etc. (contributed by www.10east.com)
> 5. Transparency
> 6. Cross-platform ( Linux + win32)
> 7. On-fly coordinate systems transformations
> 8. Seamless access of large datasets
>
> I hacked a very simple web demo at http://media.mapnik.org/tiling.html.  
> Have a  look!
> I think there could a good fit between OSM and Mapnik and I wonder if 
> anyone out there agrees with me?
> In any case it would be great to hear any comments and questions.
>
> Cheers,
> Artem
>
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