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

[Marc Gemis]

oops, I missed the "standalone" part in your message


On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 5:26 AM, Marc Gemis <marc.gemis at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.openpoimap.org
> http://www.openlinkmap.org
> http://www.flosm.de/en/POI-map.html
>
> or look at the complete list at
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/List_of_OSM-based_services
>
> regards
>
> m
>
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 3:58 AM, Wuzzy <wuzzy2 at mail.ru> wrote:
>> 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).
>>
>> --
>> Wuzzy
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