[OSM-talk] Fw: Osmarender 3.0

[Wollschaf]

On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:44:41 +0100, Nick Whitelegg wrote:

> I don't think the suggestion was to use SVG for the slippy map; as you say
> that would probably be better done from a read-only, planet.osm based
> database without versioning information - as done by Freemap. The idea was
> more to add a web-based interface to osmarender, so that people who wanted
> to get a high-quality SVG map of their area could do so easily.

Ah, I was too far ahead. The SVG slippy map will take some time to appear,
I guess.

A simple rendering interface to osmarender would basically be the dev
mapserver I suggested.

> Another issue which ideally needs to be solved is being able to save the
> SVG to file for import into Inkscape (for conversion to PNG); this does
> not seem to be possible in Firefox

Right-clicking and "Save Page as" works for me - just add a svg extension
to the filename.

Wollschaf