[OSM-dev] Obtain SLD style for osm

[Jukka Rahkonen]

Frederik Ramm <frederik <at> remote.org> writes:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> Jukka Rahkonen wrote:
> I do
> > not know what Omniscale is doing for accelerating pure non-tiled WMS.
> 
> I don't know details either but if you switch projections you'll 
> immediately see that they are warping bitmaps instead of doing what one 
> would call "pure" WMS. There are several free attempts at providing a 
> bitmap-backed WMS in OSM, I think that crschmidt used to work on 
> something like that, as well as OJW. I don't know if any of them ever 
> completed anything though.

Frederik is right, Omniscale is obviously converting prerendered tiles into WMS.
 Best example that I found yesterday about real OpenStreetMap WMS with
on-thy-fly rendering, re-projection and selectable layers is at:
http://osm.wheregroup.com/demo/frames/index.php?&gui_id=osm_basic

-Jukka-