Re: [Talk-us] Brainstorm: What should a US map of OSM data look like
I would love to help on this, iv been working on a tile set for mmassDOT and mmost of these things are exacctly what im goiing for (sheields, less use of the word motterway) Sent with Verizon Mobile Email ---Original Message--- From: "Lars Ahlzen" Sent: 9/16/2011 7:48 pm To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Brainstorm: What should a US map of OSM data look like On 09/16/2011 03:37 PM, Ian Dees wrote: > I'd like to figure out a way to start working collaboratively on > getting a style started. Has anyone tried to collaboratively work on a > style file before? Is there anyone interested in working with on it > with me? I was thinking about firing up a publicly-accessible Tilemill > instance on a representative set of US data and going from there. I'd be happy to help working on it - especially since I'm already doing some of the things that were mentioned on TopOSM. Tilemill is nice for trying out new ideas, though it might be some work converting existing styles to carto. Git might work well, too. -- Lars Ahlzen l...@ahlzen.com ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] What should a US map of OSM data look like
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 12:51 AM, Jeffrey Ollie wrote: > On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: >> On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 18:41 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote: >>> >>> Render shields at lower resolutions, since the US is not as dense as the UK. >> >> I'm curious how we'll handle this given the sheer number of route >> shields. > > A table like this: > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Custom_Highway_Shields > > with SVGs that can be matched to routes based upon various tags is > they way to go I think. Although the renderer itself probably won't > use a Wiki page, but the idea is there. "If you tag them; they will render." ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
