[Talk-us] TopOSM

[Lars Ahlzen]

On 05/20/2016 10:58 PM, Richard Welty wrote:
> On 5/20/16 9:24 PM, Clifford Snow wrote:
>> I was just on TopOSM [1] which appears to be very outdated. Does
>> anyone know who maintains this site?
>>
>> [1] http://toposm.ahlzen.com/
> lars ahlzen maintains it. not sure if he's still monitoring this list
> closely or not.

I do. It's pretty out of date indeed.

TopOSM was never rendered on-the-fly. It's just a (very large) set of 
static tiles (currently hosted by Stamen). To update it I'd have to 
either re-render and upload the entire set, or improve it until it can 
be rendered in real time. I was working on the latter [1] but never 
quite finished it.

There's already the OSM cycle map which has a lot of the same features, 
though with a slightly different focus. I guess one advantage of 
something like toposm is that it can use higher-resolution data from 
sources like USGS, and uses US conventions for things like units, 
symbols and other cartographic details.

Would it be would be worth picking it up again?

- Lars

[1] https://github.com/Ahlzen/TopOSM2