Thanks Andre, > > A little bit late, but I have written some wiki-Pages documentating my own > Mapnik-Styles: > > For quite a while I have been thinking of trying to set up something to share tips, tricks and examples for producing maps from OSM data - we have tools to make the rendering toolchain and quite a few sets of instructions for setting up the toolchain, but we do not have a lot of guidance on writing stylesheets for OSM data. Although the main mapnik style is really good, it is so complex that it is not good as a worked example for someone to learn from.
For example, there are quite a few renderers that have different ways of writing styles, and even if you pick mapnik, there are at least three different ways of writing stylesheets (XML, Cascadenik and Cairo). I have been experimenting with Cairo lately, because this appears to lend itself to writing more 'elegant' styles (although the layer definitions remain ugly), and storing the files on github (so I can get them back when I break them...) [ https://github.com/jones139/Mapnik-OSM-Styles/tree/master/three_villages_map.if anyone is interested]. I have also got bits and pieces of documentation that I have written in response to specific questions (e.g. http://www.slideshare.net/jones139/rendering-openstreetmap-data-using-mapnik ). Would anyone be interested in sharing examples of styles they have produced etc.? I think there is a 'stylesheets' wiki page that we could update with a set of links for starters, but I could see it develop into something a bit more detailed with tutorials etc. I will make a start on it if people think it would be useful. Regards Graham. -- Graham Jones Hartlepool, UK.
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