[Potlatch-dev] Status of "opencyclemap.css"?

[Steve Bennett]

On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 11:49 PM, Dave Stubbs <osm.list at randomjunk.co.uk> wrote:
> Not really, that style is specifically trying to look like open cycle map.
> Much of the cool map.css styling in Potlatch 2 is designed to unconfuse the
> user as much as possible by replicating what they see in the real world
> renderings. There's obviously some conflicts there with creating good
> editing styles as a good editing style is not necessarily a good viewing
> style.

Which brings me to another question: are there any (live, online)
renderers using mapcss? I guess my real goal here is to produce a
rendering style rather than an editing style, so once I have a good
.css, what would be a good way to render something with it?

>> 2) Attempting to mimic the opencyclemap style is at worst a breach of
>> copyright, and at best very constraining: there are lots of things
>> that could be improved about that style.
> It's not a breach of copyright -- it was done by Andy Allan, ie: the
> opencyclemap style creator.

Didn't realise that. It would still be breaching his copyright for
anyone else to continue to try and imitate the style, I think. (But
anyway, we've resolved that I'm not going to go down that path.)

> Start a new stylesheet. It's up to the deployers of Potlatch 2 which
> stylesheets are available by default, so there's no harm in there being a
> good choice.

Cool. Next question: how can I run my local instance of Potlatch 2
against the live OSM DB? Is that possible? For testing, looking at
actual data is obviously much more useful.

Steve