[OSM-dev] Status of the Mapnik stylesheets

Paweł Paprota ppawel at fastmail.fm
Thu Nov 15 11:12:06 GMT 2012


On 11/15/2012 09:46 AM, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
>
> Whether or not we use git or svn for the Mapnik stylesheet is a question,
> but not one which I think will have much bearing on the willingness of
> people with cartography nous to contribute. More important are:
>
> - moving from something that cartographers can't understand (XML) to
> something they might be able to (CSS)
> - reducing the need for an industrial rendering stack to test changes, and
> instead being able to prototype on the desktop or via the web
>

Would that be something to help with? Especially the second part looks 
like it may help - kind of a playground area with the current rendering 
stack available + some simple UI to try out changes, perhaps even use it 
as a pastebin - you can show people your changes etc.

Paweł




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