[Talk-us] Fwd: Re: [OSM-talk] Mapquest launches site based on OSM!

[Dane Springmeyer]

On Jul 10, 2010, at 2:21 AM, Toby Murray wrote:

> Well I took a look at the blog post with the technical details. They
> are using a vanilla osm2pgsql/mapnik setup, just custom styles from
> Cartifact. They mention enhancing mapnik. Have these changes already
> made it back upstream or will that happen in the future?

Yes, they are in trunk (aka Mapnik2).

> In particular
> I'm guessing the "multistyle rendering based on polygonal regions" is
> of interest for the highway/interstate rendering. I see they don't
> (yet?) have state highway shields, just interstates and US highways.
> 
> Overall I think it looks pretty nice though.
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Richard Welty <rwelty at averillpark.net> wrote:
>> On 7/9/10 5:57 PM, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Toby Murray<toby.murray at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Also, I see they are rendering highway shields. Didn't I see a big
>>>> discussion about that here recently? :)
>>>> 
>>>> Wonder if they are using the route relations to render them...
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Not sure what they are doing, because I-80 near Des Moines has
>>> shields, but I-35 doesn't.  I was going to take a look later to see if
>>> I could figure out what was different between the two cases.
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> here's a sample in my neighborhood; some NY 43 shields have the NY, some
>> don't:
>> 
>> http://open.mapquest.co.uk/mq/4-Vc4rtBI4PAQu
>> 
>> 
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