[OSM-talk] transparent road layer

andrzej zaborowski balrogg at gmail.com
Wed Jun 15 03:40:53 BST 2011


On 13 June 2011 19:19, Rob Truxler <rtruxler en gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Everyone
> Does anyone know a map tile web service that produces transparent tiles with
> just roads and their labels and icons on them?  I'm hoping to use this layer
> with a background tileset that I already have. I'm open to using anything
> that is not in breach of a terms of service -- a custom mapnik server, a
> yahoo service, bing service, mapquest service, anything that has this
> feature. Does anyone know one? If not, is it feasible to set up a custom
> mapnik server that does this?

Mapsurfer.net had a really nice roads + names overlay, but it's down
for a couple of weeks now, I'd like to know if it's going to be back
myself.  It wasn't mapnik based, it was some custom thing.  It worked
great for aerial imagery.

Cheers



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