[OSM-talk] Why do you use Google Maps instead of OSM? Because of buildings...

[Shaun McDonald]

The style I mentioned below was made by turning the buildings off using the CloudMade Style Editor, which is a lot easier and significantly faster than changing a stylesheet and setting up a tile server. I have used Web Maps Lite (similar to OpenLayers) on my own site, with tiles coming from CloudMade as the example.

The CloudMade nonames map is already on the osm.org front page. A lot of people don't realise there are other style hidden behind the little + in the top right hand corner of the map.

Shaun

On 10 Nov 2009, at 13:54, Konrad Skeri wrote:

> While OSM is extremely powerful and present us with limitless
> posibilities, I very much doubt that every user would set up an own
> tile server and write a rendering definition. In fact most irregular
> users (like the ones getting a static map to show the location of
> their office at a website) will probably only use the base layers
> presented to them at openstreetmap.org. Creating own schemes on
> CloudMade or other services are for us fanatics. :)
> It would be nice to include links to other OSM maps (e.g. CloudMade)
> from the main OSM site so that it will be a little bit easier for
> people to see the variety of maps and power of free map data.
> 
> regards
> Konrad
> 
> 
> 2009/11/10 Shaun McDonald <shaun at shaunmcdonald.me.uk>:
>> [...]
>>> 
>>> 1) There is only partial building coverage which is confusing - they
>>> would prefer full or none but not partial. I will do a post to talk-gb
>>> to see if someone fancies doing some tracing in the area over the next
>>> week.
>> 
>> You can turn the buildings off as another option:
>> http://maps.shaunmcdonald.me.uk/?lat=51.517289&lng=-0.122566&zoom=15&layer=1
>> 
>>> 
>>> 2) The tube and railway symbols are not the normal ones used within
>>> the UK. I will suggest that the overlay the normal UK symbols on the
>>> map in some editing software.
>> 
>> A custom renderer could be setup with the symbols that are needed,
>> though if they are going to be clickable for more information markers
>> would possibly be better, though they would need to be dynamically
>> loaded.
>> 
>> Shaun
>> 
>>> 
>>> The above does however show the level of quality and completeness that
>>> will be required to win people over, aside from any usability issues
>>> and doubts over licensing and attribution.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Peter
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Peter.
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