[OSM-dev] [OSM] Informations about osmarender for Google SoC

[Artem Pavlenko]

On 25 Mar 2008, at 15:32, Mario wrote:

> Hi Robert!
>
> Robert (Jamie) Munro ha scritto:
>> I would like a thing on OSM.org that lets me select an area from the
>> slippy map with a draggable box (like the shift-drag feature), but
>> instead of just zooming, took me to a page where I can choose from  
>> a few
>> style options and parameters and download an SVG that I can load into
>> inkscape, Adobe Illustrator, Xara Xtreme or whatever to edit and then
>> print.
>
> This is another great idea for extending the "web app way"! OSM IMHO
> should really offer great functionalities beyond other maps'.
>
> It's getting a little bit difficult to make everyone happy :)
> The most difficult thing is that any possible solution has great
> integrations problems because of the language used (Java? Ruby?  
> Python?)
>
> So I can try a different (crazy?) proposal: In my PHP works, I've  
> got in
> touch with an extension that made Java classes available to PHP
> language. I've done a 1 minute search (so please forgive me if they
> couldn't fit well with OSM and if there are other options I've not
> considered) and found that there are similar projects for Ruby and
> Python both:
>
> For Ruby:
> RJB: http://rjb.rubyforge.org/
>
> For Python:
> Jython: http://www.jython.org/Project/index.html
> JPype: http://jpype.sourceforge.net/
>
> Beyond my Google application (in which I think it's better to remain a
> little bit vague about the final GUI implementation, because some  
> other
> discussion is needed), my crazy proposal is to write the core in Java
> (which I already know) with a great structured API that makes  
> available
> "services" for rules handling to Ruby (Web app) and Python (Inkscape).
>
> This could let me help the community the best as I can (my research
> abilities, i.e. for rules/XML structure studying and parametrized CSS
> improving, UML Design for structuring classes and API, usability  
> studies
> for the future GUI, Java for core implementation) and then leave  
> better
> specialized contributors to port the real GUI implementation  
> everywhere
> is needed in other projects' own languages.
>
> Is this a total madness?

Yes, it is :)

As Tom already pointed out (Python):
....
  import cairo
  surface = cairo.SVGSurface('demo.svg', m.width,m.height)
  render(m, surface)

  surface = cairo.PDFSurface('demo.pdf', m.width,m.height)
  render(m, surface)

>
> Mario
>
>

Artem
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