[OSM-talk] osmarender and mappaint styles

[Nick Whitelegg]

On Friday 20 Oct 2006 10:06, David Earl wrote:
> Having realised the advantages of landuse and other area properties now I
> know how to use them, I've been doing more with them.

> Secondly, I think it would be better if the mappaint plugin defalts had
> colours consistent with osmarender (e.g. cycleways are rendered in magenta
> in mappaint and green in osmarender, while footways are green vs brown).
> Again I know (and have) changed these, but I would have thought most people
> would want this. mappaint also has a different set of missing area
> renderings (mostly more of them). Again, would it be helpful for me to
> systematically bring these into line? (Note for the future: wouldn't it be
> even better if they used the same style file?)

Best thing to do is put your own XML file into svn. That way people can choose 
between a selection of pre-prepared mappaint styles which suit their own 
personal preferences.

Nick