[OSM-talk] osmarender4

[80n]

On 2/18/07, David Earl <david at frankieandshadow.com> wrote:
>
> I've just downloaded osmarender4. Firsty, I notice that many of the new
> symbols are in there as standard, even though they aren't on the slippy
> map - thank you! Secondly, could areas fro school, university and college
> go
> intot eh standard rules as well - I did these as 'fill: #B9ACD8; stroke:
> #a18bd8; stroke-width: 0.2px;', which is a light mauvecolour, in my old
> local copy of osmarender.
>
> I had a couple of problems. This is using xmlstarlet in Windows:
> (a) using the info here
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Osmarender/Howto, running
>   xmlstarlet-1.0.1\xml tr osmarender.xsl rules/standard.xml > map.svg 2>
> go.log
> I get 'warning: failed to load external entity "rules/data.osm"'
>
> I had to move th standard.xml up a level to get it to work
>
> (b) it then renders without symbols and says
> 'warning: failed to load external entity "symbols/airport.svg"' etc.
>
> This is because the files as downloaded have .xml extensions, not .svg. I
> had to rename the files in order for it to work.
>
> Finally, I was rather dismayed to find that the rendering styles in the
> slippy map change from tile to tile in quite small areas around Cambridge
> -
> some bits have railways solid, some dashed. Presumably this is because
> tiles at home users haven't updated to osmarender4, as Fred, I think, pointed
> out before. Is there no way to prevent acceptance of tiles uploaded from
> old
> installations? And what's to stop me from adding my own favourite
> renderings
> within tiles at home and causing chaos?


David
For tiles at home *only* zoom levels 12 and 13 are kocher.  Levels 14
through 17 have not been optimised and are the original ones designed for
Osmarender 3.

A few changes, such as dashed railways crept in at level 14, for no good
reason, when Osmarender 4 was implemented.

80n
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