[OSM-talk] Cycle route planning using OSM

Nick Whitelegg Nick.Whitelegg at solent.ac.uk
Tue Apr 3 15:20:49 BST 2007


Tom Chance wrote:



>So, one day it would be excellent to have an "Outdoor map" style of 
>cartography offered on the main OSM slippy map, as a third alternative 
>to Mapnik (which is evolving along the lines of road-atlas/streetmap 
>cartography) and Osmarender. Freemap may well be a good starting point.

One option could be to invite more suggestions/contributions to Freemap 
itself. The Freemap renderer now uses Mercator, not OSGB, and runs off 
PostGIS so theoretically could be easily plugged into the main OSM 
website.

Nick







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