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

Nick Whitelegg nick at hogweed.org
Tue May 6 08:27:48 BST 2008


On Sunday 04 May 2008 22:44, Gervase Markham wrote:
> 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

Yes, all of these things.

Nick




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