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

[Gervase Markham]

Nick Whitelegg wrote:
> My idea is to try and shield the user from the XML file altogether. Rather 
> than get a user to open an XML file, I'd like users to be able to simply 
> open an OSM file, download data from the API, or retrieve data from a 
> PostGIS database, and then use the UI to define styles for OSM key/value 
> combinations. 

Right - but which styles? E.g. for roads, do you want to allow them to 
define colour, border colour, width, ...? For pubs, do you want them to 
be able to choose their own icon, select from a list?

> I'd also like the users to be able to define, and order, layers for their 
> map.

So they have to be able to decide what features go on which layer?

Gerv