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

[Richard Fairhurst]

Steve Bennett wrote:
> 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?

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Kothic
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ceyx

Komzpa has also been working on a MapCSS-to-Mapnik parser.

Halcyon, Potlatch 2's rendering engine, can run outside of Potlatch 2. 
(It's a significantly smaller component, too, because it doesn't have 
P2's Flex dependency.) But right now I need to do a bit of testing as 
I'm not sure that rapid P2 development hasn't left standalone Halcyon in 
a slightly fragile state. :)

> 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.

The instance at www.geowiki.com is running against the live OSM db. If 
you open that, then "view source" on the embedding HTML file, you'll see 
the relevant parameters for talking to osm.org.

cheers
Richard