[OSM-talk] OSM map renderer - update

[Etienne Cherdlu]

On 4/19/06, Nick Whitelegg <Nick.Whitelegg at solent.ac.uk> wrote:
> >Any particular reason you didn't use exactly the same format as
> >Etienne?  (Not that I think you should have, I'm just wondering)
>
> Etienne's is perhaps more geared to SVG (or at least XML) output, through
> the use of XSLT, CSS classes etc.  The format I used seemed the most
> straightforward way to style a dynamically-generated bitmap image. However
> if most people are in favour of one single style format I could alter my
> format to the same as Etienne's, though that would require quite a bit of
> work, as a combined XML/CSS parser is obviously more complex than a
> straight XML parser.

>From a brief inspection there is a close correlation between Nick's
attributes and the equivalent SVG style elements (Osmarender can do
both SVG styles and CSS) so it shuld be possible to convert from one
to the other.  If the notation can be made more similar where possible
then that would help the people who have to use this stuff.

--
Etienne