[OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] [Talk-GB] Automating Freemap tile rendering

[Artem Pavlenko]

On Saturday 24 February 2007 12:41, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> On 2/24/07, Artem Pavlenko <artem at pavlenko.uklinux.net> wrote:
> > > How does the information in the shapefile get to the user's display?
> >
> > Well, Mapnik can read shapefiles directly trough datasource abstraction.
>
> Then why hasn't it been done?

Mapnik already renders vmap boundaries from shapefiles.
I just didn't have time to tweak osm.xml to use coastline polygons.  I'll try to update osm.xml for the next planet. 

>
> > For osmarender you could write shp to svg transformer (shapelib??) or
> > even better store coastlines in postgis and use asSVG(geometry).
>
> Possibly. My point is that generating the land/sea tiles is already in
> progress.
>
> http://kleptog.org/seatiles/

Hmm.. I can't see any tiles..  Can you send me some?
>
> I have no idea how long it would take to implement your idea (why
> wasn't it suggested before when almien asked for it?)

I suggested this on: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2007-February/003045.html
I don't recall almien asking about it. It is possible I missed this somehow.

Cheers,
Artem

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