[OSM-talk] "Crudely-drawn pint glasses"

[Igor Brejc]

Artem Pavlenko wrote:
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> Mapnik is that tool and it's also free and easy to use ;) . It is  
> used in many exciting projects to generate custom maps e.g
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> http://www.everyblock.com/
> http://www.placebase.com/
> http://www.mysociety.org/2007/more-travel-maps/
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>> I believe Kosmos wants to fill that gap.
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> Kosmos is win32 only and it also relies on inferior GDI+ rendering.
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I don't want to start "which rendering engine/tool is better" debate. 
Just my observation: I started developing Kosmos because I felt there 
was a gap between "ordinary" (no derogatory meaning) OSM users wanting 
to see their local OSM data immediately upon creating it and heavy-duty 
rendering engines like Mapnik and t at h. I don't mean to criticize or 
anything, but I think installing Mapnik is quite an undertaking for a 
non-developer (just by looking at the Mapnik installation procedure). 
And yes, Kosmos is (currently, but hopefully not for long) win32 only 
and it does use inferior GDI+ rendering. But I think it serves its 
purpose (well, at least for me it does and that's enough motivation for 
me to continue improving it :) ). But I do appreciate hard work of other 
people on OSM.

Regards,
Igor

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