[OSM-talk] Osmarender 3.0

[Andy Robinson]

What I like about Osmarender is the configurability.

If we had the xslt running on the server a browser could make a request for
an area based on a search. The submit page would include check boxes for
what you wanted to display (basic layer things like names, road types etc)
and a generic colour scheme from a drop down list, similar to Maporama. The
submit to the server would then start the process of getting the data from
the database, filtering for the content required, creating the svg and
delivering that svg back to the browser. It would make it close to a one
click operation to be able to print your own local maps quickly.

Of course we would need some extra server capacity to make it work fast and
expandable. Some basic scale and size limits on the area of the map would
stop the method being abused and killing the server.

Obviously some compatibility issues with the SVG and browsers but bearing in
mind the IE oriented populous out there a link to the Adobe viewer download
would provide a significant number with functionality.

Cheers

Andy

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-
>bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Etienne
>Sent: 28 September 2006 11:01 AM
>To: Nick Whitelegg
>Cc: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Osmarender 3.0
>
>On 9/28/06, Nick Whitelegg <nick at hogweed.org> wrote:
>
>	On Thursday 28 Sep 2006 10:01, Nick Hill wrote:
>	> That is really neat. It shouldn't be lost on most people but just
>to
>	> make the point;
>	>
>	> Osmarender runs entirely in a web browser. Collects _RAW_ OSM
data,
>	> converts to SVG and displays with zoom and panning.
>	>
>	> No server side rendering or extra data transformation necessary.
>	>
>
>	Incidentally would there be scope for a browser-based (AJAX/XSLT)
>"osmarender
>	browser"?
>
>
>Yes.  Shouldn't be too difficult.
>
>
>
>	i.e . user searches for location by place name or lat/lon, and gets
>	an osmarender map of their area.
>
>
>Links from the search page.
>
>
>
>	Then, by navigating using the arrow keys
>	(slippy-style map would probably be too slow for SVG, at a guess)
>they can
>	move around.
>
>
>Some problems with making tile boundaries seamless, but performance
>probably wouldn't be too bad as all the rendering is done by the client,
>the only server load is the API gets.
>
>
>
>	Or would this hit the API too much?
>
>	Nick
>
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