Matt Amos wrote: > i'd sound a note of caution about having separate "clean" and > "detailed" styles. we sort-of did that before with mapnik and > osmarender respectively and... well, we don't have > osmarender any more.
That was a technology failure, though, rather than anything wrong with the concept itself. In principle, there are clear, identifiable, distinct needs for a "showcase style" and a "debugging view". We want the great unwashed to look at OSM and say "wow, that's a complete, accurate map"; and we want our mappers to enjoy the gratification of seeing their changes rendered, because that's a powerful incentive to keep contributing. (I use the word "view" rather than "style" because it's conceivable that the latter could be provided some other way than a traditional Mapnik stylesheet, perhaps something along the lines of Kothic-JS.) So the problems we have right now are: - we don't have a debugging view, and that leads to inappropriate pressure on the showcase style (e.g. the 8,000 tints for subtly different forms of landuse) - the showcase style is temporarily stalled due to technological issues and both need fixing sooner rather than later. (For the showcase style, personally I think XML vs CSS is more of a problem than svn vs git, but that's an implementation detail.) cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Status-of-the-Mapnik-stylesheets-tp5735606p5735775.html Sent from the Developer Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
