[OSM-newbies] Polygons and Properties

[Stuart]

Cheers Andy, Thomas

Seems just as well that I plan to use my own OsmaRenderer. Always intended 
to learn about XSLT so this is as good a reason as any.
I'll look for Amenity : School and see what it does that is different from a 
point.

If I'm brave I might try MapNik but it appears to be for Linux (I'm WinXP). 
Last time I tried there was a Windows binary but with no instructions on how 
to get it to work - I got stuck. Has anyone any experience with Win MapNik?

So there is a Forum - don't know how I missed it. Doesn't seem to get used 
much though.

Regards
Stuart

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andy Allan" <gravitystorm at gmail.com>
To: <newbies at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 5:43 PM
Subject: Re: [OSM-newbies] Polygons and Properties


> On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Stuart <stuart.srsm at blueyonder.co.uk> 
> wrote:
>
>>  I intend to use a local version of osmarenderer so don't really care 
>> about
>>  formatting as long as a closed way gets through to the OSM data file as 
>> a
>>  polygon.
>
> There's nothing in the OSM data file to say which ways constitute
> "polygons" - it's up to each application (editors and renderers alike)
> to decide. So given that you want to render stuff with osmarender then
> you would need to tell it which features you want to render as
> polygons, and it doesn't matter what JOSM thinks one way or another.
>
>>  I posted this same comment on the Wiki Talk: Josm. I'm not sure if that 
>> is
>>  the appropriate forum for a question - speaking of forum I can't figure 
>> out
>>  the attraction of a mailing list over a forum. Seems designed to make 
>> life
>>  harder for all involved.
>
> Each to his own. There's http://forum.openstreetmap.org/ if you'd
> prefer to use that in future.
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
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