[OSM-newbies] Rendering maps in Silverlight

[Thomas Wood]

2008/11/20 Philip Fitzsimons <philip at hilltown.info>:
> I'm new (first post) and had a question about the OSM format.
>
> I've started writing a renderer in Silverlight to draw maps direct from the OSM data
> (http://blog.figmentengine.com/search/label/OpenStreetMap)
>
> Where is the best place to look for information about what the "correct" rendering logic (for example how different type of area
> should be layered (z-index) or general rules about colours, and widths of various road types and rivers?)
There's no rules as such, you can do anything you want, but places to
start would be rulesets for existing renderers, including osmarender,
mapnik and kosmos.
http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/rendering/osmarender/stylesheets/
http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/rendering/mapnik/osm.xml
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Kosmos_rules

Editors such as JOSM and Potlatch focus more on rendering for editing
directly, they don't care about z-layering (at my last check), and
have much simpler styles:
http://josm.openstreetmap.de/browser/trunk/styles/standard
http://svn.openstreetmap.org/sites/rails_port/config/potlatch/colours.txt

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Regards,
Thomas Wood
(Edgemaster)