[OSM-dev] Status of the Mapnik stylesheets

[Tom MacWright]

> Currently it's in a bit of a holding pattern. Personally, I'm waiting for
an update of the server, which should bring a newer version of the mapnik
render software. The other regular maintainer is on Windows, and would need
a Windows build of that mapnik to come back to developing the style.

To the best of my knowledge, the osm.org server is running Mapnik 2.0.0,
which is not brand-new, but is pretty new.

Given that there's literally zero activity on this style, I'm not really
convinced that we need to provide Windows support here. Can we just bring
in more contributors instead?

Ideally we can move the osm stylesheet to github, close non-actionable
tickets and address those that can be addressed. More than any particular
issue, the biggest problem I'm seeing with the Mapnik style is that there
are two maintainers, one of whom we haven't heard from in more than a year,
and zero guidance or information on whether it's even possible to submit a
patch. We need to open this up and restart the development process.

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Derick Rethans <osm at derickrethans.nl>wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Nov 2012, Paweł Paprota wrote:
>
> > On 11/13/2012 03:48 PM, Simon Legner wrote:
> > >
> > > I'd like to find out what the current status of the Mapnik
> > > stylesheets for www.osm.org is. The most recent changes are from
> > > June 2012 [1], and the number of open tickets in TRAC is >400 [2].
> >
> > Indeed... I looked at the same thing 2-3 weeks ago and also wondered
> > about status, workflow etc... I'm in no position to help with the
> > styles (I'm no cartographer/designer/whatever) so I dropped it.
> >
> > > Who is responsible for incorporating changes? Is some help needed?
> > > How are those changes applied to the main rendering server?
> > >
> >
> > This was brought up several weeks ago on the mailing list by Mapbox
> > folks when they tried to learn the very same things (look for
> > "wishlist" threads from October). What is the current status and their
> > plans for working on styling - I don't know.
> >
> > > I'd like to see some accepted tagging systems like the public
> > > transport schema [3] be handled by the stylesheet.
> > >
> >
> > I'd say the priority should be bringing the main style onto the
> > "pretty" side...
>
> I would rather see as much useful things rendered that make sense for
> *mappers*. Pretty tiles should also be made, but as far as I know, the
> default style that is on openstreetmap.org is for *us* - the people who
> add data.
>
> cheers,
> Derick
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