[OSM-talk] Is there a OSM map viewer program to dynamically view OSM data?

[Wuzzy]

Hi!

I was wondering if there is some standalone application (preferable for
PC) to view OSM data as a map, but dynamically and locally (not
from some random computer on the Internet) rendered.

We already have a large number of websites which show OSM data in all
sorts of different styles and this is pretty cool. But I think all of
them do not show OSM in its full glory, and they are all tailored to
a specific use case.
The www.openstreetmap.org style is already pretty nice IMO but this is
of course not useful for all use cases.

Also most of the websites them use a pre-rendered “base layer” and just
put symbols on top of that. This is not what I want.
Therefore, the KDE program “Marble” does not count. It is able to show
OSM, but it's just the pre-rendered default layers of
www.openstreetmap.org.
JOSM kinda does what I want, but it is obviously not tailored towards
*viewing* map data for everyday usage.

What I want is an application which renders OSM data directly and based
on configurable user settings, i.e. switching on and off certain
features (like country borders) is as simple as clicking a checkbox.

As an analogy, Google Earth has such a feature where you can toggle
some map features, but it is not based on OSM, obviously and also it is
rather limited in that sense.

So I wonder, is there already such a tool which has such features? Or
at least a *similar* tool. It would be very cool if the tool can render
from OSM data directly, but if some manual conversion would be needed,
that would be okay.

I should give some examples:
The program could have a checkbox somewhere to toggle country borders.
So you click the checkbox and they disappear. Or you could have a map
where only lanterns or whatever are displayed. Or a map where only the
surface or landuse types are rendered. Etc. etc. Everything should be
created dynamically.

The reason why I am looking for such a tool is because I think it would
be really useful in many aspects.

In case no such program exists, I wonder if there has been made any
attempt to create such a program (at least).

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