[OSM-talk] Simple GD rendering

[Oliver White]

On Saturday 13 May 2006 23:49, Simon Hewison wrote:
> > Have you seen nick.dev.openstreetmap.org (temporarily down since the new
> > servers came on stream) which does a similar sort of thing? Might be
> > worth collaborating?
>
> Are you rendering different colours based on key/value pairs on the
> individual segments, or on the ways that the segments are part of? I'm
> only asking because if you were using the details from the ways, the
> maps should be a lot more colourful than they appear. It's a lot easier
> for people editing to specify something like highway=trunk and ref=A1 on
> a way than on applying it to all the individual segments, not least that
> it saves space only defining such stuff once rather than 150 times.

I don't think ways had been invented when I last downloaded planet.osm (there 
were a couple starting to appear at the end of the data), but yes, I can 
certainly add that information in the near future.

The TODO list for that renderer is on my wiki user page ("user:Ojw") so feel 
free to add things under a "requests" header. (looks like the wiki is still 
hungover and hasn't woken up yet this morning)

I'm not subscribed to any development mailing lists yet, so I've probably 
missed the start of any discussion on there.

OJW