[Talk-ca] On renderers

2010-04-08 Thread Yves Moisan
Hi All, I need to give a presentation on OSM a couple of months down the road. One of the key aspects in my talk will revolve on the idea that OSM provides people with data they can operate on instead of just having access to pre-rendered images. On the OSM rendering page, there is a mention

Re: [Talk-ca] On renderers

2010-04-08 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Yves Moisan wrote: > What I'd > like to know in fact is how organizations that wish to control how OSM > data is rendered have for options.  And examples if possible. > > Any pointers appreciated. Dear Yves, There are a bunch of OSM datasets presented on other si

Re: [Talk-ca] On renderers

2010-04-08 Thread Adam Dunn
My personal favourite example that I tell people is http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/HaptoRender where OSM data is used to "print" a haptic map for blind users. I think it demonstrates very well the difference between access to final rendered images vs. access to the raw data. Adam On Thu, Apr

Re: [Talk-ca] On renderers

2010-04-08 Thread Yves Moisan
Thanx Adam and Richard, I guess some implementation details are given at the page you mention Richard. I feel there are folks in the audience that will ask me "how did they do that we want to do it too!" and I'll be dumbfounded ;-). If anyone has pointers to nitty-gritty implementation detail