[OSM-newbies] layers in OSM?

[Lars Kotthoff]

> If you're looking to make a custom rendered map, this is a bit more
> complex. You need to tell the renderer to only represent certain
> items.

There's also the option of using osmarender
(http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmarender/Howto) with a custom rules file
(osm-map-features-z17.xml on that page). This is only really feasible for
individual maps because editing the XML is quite nasty, but the advantage is
that you get a very fine-grained level of control. Also you can edit the created
SVG with an editor like inkscape.

I've used this to make a map for a conference
(http://cp2010.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/map.pdf) and it worked particularly nice for
the labels, which I was able to rearrange in the SVG.

Lars