[OSM-talk] Does anybody have SLD files for styling?

Jukka Rahkonen jukka.rahkonen at mmmtike.fi
Wed May 28 08:18:50 BST 2008


Hi,

With osm2pgsql it is quite easy to import OSM data into PostGIS database and
after that to generate maps with for example MapServer or Geoserver through
WMS service.  What is not so easy is making good looking maps. I wonder
if somebody has already done some OGC Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) 
files for OSM.  It would be nice to have some templates to start with.

The current Mapnik and Osmarender maps are really nice but it is obvious
that one or two standard map sets will never make everybody happy. However,
it is not possible to render the whole world very many times to have more
styling alternatives. For special needs it would be more flexible to run
a WMS service and let people select a suitable SLD file for online 
rendering.
Running global OSM WMS server might be too heavy task, but OpenStreetMap
wiki could have a styling gallery with downloadable SLD files and sample
images of the resulting maps. 





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