[OSM-talk] Osmarender4 slippy map (preview)

[Dirk-Lüder Kreie]

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Frederik Ramm schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
>     with some help from Jochen I have now managed to use Osmarender4  
> with the tiles at home scripts to generate slippy map tiles. I have  
> rendered portions of Karlsruhe, London, and Cambridge, and put them  
> on a slippy map for you to view:
> 
> http://openstreetmap.gryph.de/slippymap/

Very nice. I had planned on tackling that myself, but got sidetracked by
the other tiles at home aspects. (optimizations, bugfixes)

> The styles (XML files for Osmarender4) that have been used can be  
> downloaded here

I hope they are in svn/roduction soon :)

> I would like to get the Osmarender4 modifications for tiles at home into  
> production use as soon as possible.                                      The tiles are similar enough not
> to force us to re-render the whole world at once when that happens,  
> but I guess there will nonetheless be an effort to replace old-style  
> tiles quickly. I will deploy the changes to SVN, and participiants in  
> the tiles at home rendering will then be asked to upgrade their  
> software. (@OJW: do you think we should add a version parameter to  
> the upload script, so that the API can reject uploads with missing/ 
> too old version code?)

I'd like a version on the Request api, too, so outdated clients don't
even get work from the queue.

> So my question to you is: Do you see anything in the above examples  
> that is uglier than it was before, or so different that it breaks  
> something, or any other reason why we shouldn't go ahead with this?

The ugly black stuff between London and Karlsruhe has to go ;-)
everyting else looks like it's good to go.

Dirk-Lüder "Deelkar" Kreie


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