[OSM-dev] OpenStreetMap Carto release v4.12.0

[Christoph Hormann]

On Sunday 24 June 2018, Sven Geggus wrote:
>
> May I mention the fact, that Mapserver is still actively maintained
> and that there even is a carto preprocessor called magnacarto which
> is able to produce mapserver style files.

Yes, Mapserver has some very powerful features - including even the 
ability to code styling logic in javascript:

http://mapserver.org/de/mapfile/styleitem.html

The problem i have with Mapserver from a designer point of view is that 
it offers a complex high level feature set with many functions clearly 
intended for direct use.  But at the same time the language to 
formulate this in (the mapfiles) is not really suited to write and 
manage more complex stuff directly.  And Magnacarto only supports the 
basic features offered by both Mapserver and Mapnik which does not 
really work for Mapserver in the end since it does not make use of what 
Mapserver can but Mapnik cannot.

-- 
Christoph Hormann
http://www.imagico.de/