[OSM-dev] Reference .osm for render testing?

[Dane Springmeyer]

On Nov 17, 2009, at 1:55 AM, Michael Kussmaul wrote:

> Hi
>
> Is there an artificial reference .osm available, which shows  
> different rendering scenarios?
>
> Especially for those building a rendering engine, it could be useful  
> to have a simple OSM, which just contains all OSM map-feature,  
> special cases (like multipolygons with holes, streets above  
> another, ...) and a reference rendering (e.g. Mapnik, Osmarender) -  
> as otherwise we have to hunt for special regions on the whole  
> world.osm.
>
> kind regards
> Michael


Great Idea. The Mapnik project has a testing framework (http://trac.mapnik.org/browser/trunk/tests/ 
) but at this point is it not visual and does not render directly from  
osm files or (ideally osm files imported into postgres), but this is  
something that would be highly desirable.

Dane


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