[OSM-talk] Carto meetup

[Steve Chilton]

This meetup is set to discuss Mapnik in particular as it's developer will be there to act immediately on our suggestions. There is no reason why a similar process could not be enacted with the developer(s) of Osmarender. I agree that decisions taken on one should inform the other, but would point at that currently the decisions that have been taken on sizing features within Osmarender mean that the detail may be appropriate to include at different "levels" than those for Mapnik detail. Should the two necessarily be on a convergant path? Perhaps the Essen Developers Workshop should take this aspect on board (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Essen_Developers_Workshop). Actually, it seems that this has already been mooted (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Essen_Developers_Workshop/Topics). Again if you have views, add them to this page.

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

Chair of the Society of Cartographers:
http://www.soc.org.uk/
Mind the (Map) Gap:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/5413010.stm


-----Original Message-----
From: talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Frederik Ramm
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 12:56 PM
To: talk at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Carto meetup


Hi,

> The carto meetup is set for Sat 3 Mar. The morning session will be 
> concentrating on reviewing the Mapnik layer of the slippy map with a 
> view to tweaking things aesthetically.

I hope that the Osmarender layer will also profit from that. I don't  
see any reason why things designed to make a Mapnik layer look nice  
cannot also be used to improve Osmarender! Especially the decisions  
on what to render at what level could, and should in my opinion, be  
mirrored by the Osmarender layer (except stuff that Mapnik is  
ignorant about - while it would be nice of you to include questions  
of how to render bridges/tunnels etc at various levels, it'd probably  
be too theoretical an effort without any visuals).

Bye
Frederik

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