[OSM-talk] Osmarender4 slippy map (preview)

[Steve Chilton]

Looks excellent. Go ahead with implementing I say.
The enhancement of things like the text alignment and bridges make it so
much neater at zoomed in levels.
One small change I noticed is that there is a difference in how
residential streets render.
In time available I can't pin down exactly what it is but ends of
cul-de-sacs have changed from rounded to squared off tone for the
abutter.
I think it is that res highways are now square at a dead end and rounded
where it butts to a different road-type, and it is more logical (to me)
to be the opposite of this.
Something in both versions that might be tweakable (pedantic, but I
notice it) and that is that the symbol for golf courses is considerably
stretched in the vertical plane (ie it is too tall), and looks wrong.
I am sure analysis of the zoom layers, features, text, symbols, etc will
all be covered in detail at carto meet shortly.

Cheers
STEVE

Steve Chilton, Learning Support Fellow
Learning and Technical Support Unit Manager
School of Health and Social Sciences
Middlesex University
phone/fax: 020 8411 5355
email: steve8 at mdx.ac.uk

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[mailto:talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Frederik Ramm
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 12:57 PM
To: talk at openstreetmap.org
Subject: [OSM-talk] Osmarender4 slippy map (preview)


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/

For a better old-new comparison, the "+" layer switch button in the  
top-right corner can be used to switch between the old Osmarender map  
(from the dev server) and the Osmarender4 tiles provided by my server.