Thanks Yves for the pointer! Also the cloudmade support brought another project to my attention: http://humangeo.github.io/leaflet-dvf/
See below where it reads: /Legends - Useful for visually informing users about the dynamic styles associated with your L.DataLayer instances/ and /L.Control.Legend - Add this control to your map to automatically display a dynamic legend for any L.DataLayer based instance that you add to your map/ Regards, Peter. > I spent some time 3 years ago on the subject, and came out with that: > https://github.com/yvecai/RenderLegend > Unfortunately, the demo website that was showing mapkeys for various > styles, in various languages, and changing when zooming the map is not > anymore. > > It's not usefull to try to create the legend automatically from a > style. It was in xml at the time, but I doubt today's css change a lot > in this matter: you'll need a full fledged sql parser. > I ended up with this as the entry point: > https://github.com/yvecai/RenderLegend/blob/master/legend_compact.xml > This kind of file should probably come in 2 version: a short one and a > to-be-complete one. > > Hope this helps, > Yves > > On 09/16/2013 11:55 AM, Peter K wrote: >> Hi, >> >> is there a kind of a standard or suggestion on how to retrieve the map >> key? Like an http API or a leaflet plugin? On osm.org there is only the >> 'map key' data available for the default layer in the right box. And not >> all details are given like here: >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/DE:Map_Features >> >> Someone knows some open source effort for more details and for support >> of the various providers like mapquest, osm.de, cloudmade, ...? >> >> Kind Regards, >> Peter. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dev mailing list >> dev@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev >> . >> > > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > dev@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev >
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