[OSM-talk] Osmabrowser v0.0.1 -- an interactive Osmarender browser

[Andy Robinson]

Nice work Nick. That's the quickest map of Sutton Coldfield I have been able
to render to date. A*

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 Nick Whitelegg
>Sent: 28 September 2006 9:01 PM
>To: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: [OSM-talk] Osmabrowser v0.0.1 -- an interactive Osmarender browser
>
>
>Announcing the first usable prototype of "osmabrowser", a web-based
>interactive osmarender browser at
>
>http://www.free-map.org.uk/osmarender/index.php
>
>It will allow you to generate an osmarender map of a particular location,
>defined by latitude/longitude or place name. The initial version is
>basically
>just proof-of-concept; it always displays 0.05x0.025 degree tiles and does
>not allow the user to specify size, for example. Nonetheless you can:
>
>- go to a particular latitude/longitude
>- go to a particular location (uses Mikel's brainoff geocoder)
>- move west, south, east and north from the current location
>
>For some reason which I need to investigate, the JavaScript zoom/pan
>features
>in osmarender 3.0 don't work just yet - probably due to the fact that the
>SVG
>is embedded within XHTML. Nonetheless they do work if you select "SVG only"
>which will generate a pure SVG file of the current location (rather than
>mixed XHTML/SVG)
>
>Tested only in Firefox 1.5 on Linux.
>
>Feedback and feature suggestions welcome (beyond the obvious that it's very
>basic at the moment and the UI needs improvement.....)
>
>Nick
>
>
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