[OSM-dev] Mapnik XML file?

Joerg Ostertag openstreetmap at ostertag.name
Sun Sep 9 13:11:38 BST 2007


Am Sonntag, 9. September 2007 12:21:37 schrieb Andreas Volz:
> Am Sun, 9 Sep 2007 09:17:17 +0200 schrieb Joerg Ostertag:
> > > Another first and simple step is to move the Mapnik data
> > > from /home/steve/symbols/ to /usr/share/osm/symbols or similar.
> >
> > Yes please !!!
> >
> > > This
> > > would save some useless sed work without hurting someone.
> >
> > Yes !!!
> >
> > > What do you think about these ideas?
> >
> > I started to collect all the icons/symbols for our maps in the
> > svn-directory
> > http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/share/map-icons/.  This
> > directory should contain all needed icons. If there are icons missing
> > in there, please add them.
>
> Problem: I've no SVN access at OSM. Where could I get it?

Downloading should be possible via svn even without svn account. 


>
> Ok, looks nice. Some comments:
>
> - The class tags are still used on the website. 

It's there to have those roads also rendered.


> Also some OSM 
> unknown tags like "poi" are used. Is that only because nobody removed
> them? Or has gpsdrive an own subset of tags?

That's a gpsdrive subset.

> but a script that creates a
> simple dynamic page like that on gpsdrive.de should be really easy.

I can try to adapt the create_overview.pl script if the database backend for 
the mapfeatures is working.

> -> Currently you put icons into SVN. It may be a problem to write icons
> to SVN from a website(?).

I think it currently is a good idea to only add icons via svn, because the 
need to be PD-licenced to make them usable in OSM(CC-by-SA) and applications 
like GpsDrive(GPL) 

> 6) Create a Mapnik XML file from database.

Would be great !!


> 7) Create osmarender definition from DB. (I don't know how osmarender
> works.)

Even better.

-
joerg




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