[OSM-dev] Fw: Rendering Rules & Map Features

[Nick Whitelegg]

---------------------- Forwarded by Nick Whitelegg/FT/Southampton 
Institute on 12/09/2006 12:52 ---------------------------





>I think renderers/editors (and the online applet too) should share the 
same
>set of Rendering Rules to have a standard and interchangeable format 
defining
>them that users may use with the software they prefers. It seems actually 
the
>community is oriented to use the osmarender rules files. So i'd like to 
know
>if this is sufficient to cover all the possible future rendering settings 
or
>has to be enanched in some ways (as example subdividing it in 
rules-subsets).
>The same about map features descriptions and josm annotation presets.

For Freemap I use a simpler XML-based rules file (e.g. 
http://nick.dev.openstreetmap.org/freemap.xml). Whilst the osmarender 
approach is good for an XSLT-based system (e.g. OSM to SVG) I'm not sure 
that it's the simplest way for when the output isn't itself XML.

Nick



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