[OSM-talk] SRTM contours on Mapnik map

[Andy Robinson]

Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany) wrote:
>Sent: 19 January 2007 8:11 PM
>To: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] SRTM contours on Mapnik map
>
>On Friday 19 January 2007 20:54, matthew-osm at newtoncomputing.co.uk wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 07:42:09PM +0000, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
>> > Have just now managed to render a Mapnik map containing SRTM contours.
>>
>> ...
>>
>> > http://nick.dev.openstreetmap.org/mapnik2/100485125.png
>> >
>> > Comments on colour scheme of contours welcome - am trying to get
>> > something like the OS landranger mapss.
>>
>> Wow, looks great!
>>
>> I guess the plan is to keep the contours separate until rendering time,
>> rather than to upload them into the database? (That would seem to be
>rather
>> a waste of db space.)
>
>Well i think yes and no. Once you have the countours in the database you
>can
>correct them and make them more precise. And every editor will display them
>without any additional effort. So I would upload them ...
>

I'd agree with you regarding being able to adjust them but if they are in
the db and shown in JOSM and the applet by default it's going to confuse the
hell out of anyone just starting up.

Cheers

Andy
 
Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk


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