Re: [OSM-dev] Standard for Map Key

2013-09-18 Thread Martin Tesar
Hi, I am creating map key automatically on my MTB maps - http://mtbmap.cz (tab Legend). It is still full of cartographic and rendering mistakes, but it is just a matter of time to fix it. It is created automatically from mapnik xml style file for each zoom level. There is only extra "name" attribu

Re: [OSM-dev] Standard for Map Key

2013-09-17 Thread Peter K
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.Lege

Re: [OSM-dev] Standard for Map Key

2013-09-16 Thread yvecai
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 th

Re: [OSM-dev] Standard for Map Key

2013-09-16 Thread Peter Wendorff
Hi Andy, I know that it's not easy - and I'm sure it's not possible to do completely without manual work, but I think, it would be great to have something like that. Let's see, what a feature in a map key usually is. 1) a label in the users language describing the features meaning (e.g. city, cap

Re: [OSM-dev] Standard for Map Key

2013-09-16 Thread Peter K
Hi! > Peter Wendorff: > Hi, > as far as I know all map keys are created by hand. > I'm not sure what you refer to exactly, but basically I see two things > which would be great to have: > > 1) some kind of "standard" to retrieve a map key for a given tile set; > e.g. tile-URL is tile.openstreetmap

Re: [OSM-dev] Standard for Map Key

2013-09-16 Thread Andy Allan
On 16 September 2013 12:14, Peter Wendorff wrote: > as far as I know all map keys are created by hand. I think that's true, and therefore somewhat tedious! > 2) it would be really great to have some automatic map key generation > out of the style files. For Mapnik that's incredible ugly as mapn

Re: [OSM-dev] Standard for Map Key

2013-09-16 Thread Peter Wendorff
Hi, as far as I know all map keys are created by hand. I'm not sure what you refer to exactly, but basically I see two things which would be great to have: 1) some kind of "standard" to retrieve a map key for a given tile set; e.g. tile-URL is tile.openstreetmap.org/{z}/{x}/{y}.png, then search fo

Re: [OSM-dev] Standard for Map Key

2013-09-16 Thread Paul Norman
> From: Tom Hughes [mailto:t...@compton.nu] > Sent: Monday, September 16, 2013 3:16 AM > Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] Standard for Map Key > > I would just caution that any thought of trying to add everything which > is rendered to the key is probably something you should immediat

Re: [OSM-dev] Standard for Map Key

2013-09-16 Thread Tom Hughes
On 16/09/13 10:55, Peter K wrote: 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.o

[OSM-dev] Standard for Map Key

2013-09-16 Thread Peter K
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_Fea