[OSM-talk] Mapnik viewer for OSM data - UI suggestions?

tim chippy2005 at gmail.com
Fri Apr 25 17:07:00 BST 2008


On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Nick Whitelegg
<Nick.Whitelegg at solent.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
>  One of the OSM projects I'm hoping to work on is a Mapnik GUI renderer for
>  .osm files (and live API data, cached locally, and PostGIS databases),
>  based on the Mapnik viewer. However what would be good is to get some user
>  interface suggestions from people. The aim is to try and make it as easy
>  as possible for people to render, and print, custom Mapnik maps.

one point for research on GUI for styling, could be how desktop GIS
work to change the styling of map elements.  Quantum GIS (QGIS), Udig,
Jump, grass, as well as the usual suspects, esri, mapinfo etc

tim




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