Re: [Talk-GB] 'Easy' Speciality Map Rendering

2011-02-23 Thread Peter Miller
Just to let you know that at ITO we are now very close to releasing a set of specialist renderings which might meet your requirements. These views will include: *Power lines, generators, substations etc (lines colour-coded by voltage if available) *Road speed limits (colour coded by speed limit if

Re: [Talk-GB] 'Easy' Speciality Map Rendering

2011-02-23 Thread Tim Saunders
You would have my support for this Graham. I think I fall into the category of someone who has basic skills but just don't have the time to fathom out where to start on something like the Toolserver link. Cloudmade looks more accessible, but seems quite restricted in what one can edit? My

Re: [Talk-GB] 'Easy' Speciality Map Rendering

2011-02-23 Thread Graham Jones
Hi All, Quite a bit of the feedback I have had on this suggestion has pointed towards the documentation for the map rendering tools being very complicated and hard to follow. I think there are quite a few good step-by-step tutorials on setting up the tools, but I think we may be lacking a 'stand

Re: [Talk-GB] 'Easy' Speciality Map Rendering

2011-02-23 Thread Graham Jones
Thanks Peter - It will be interesting to see what you come up with - sounds very similar to what I was thinking of! Graham On 23 February 2011 17:22, Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote: Just to let you know that at ITO we are now very close to releasing a set of specialist

Re: [Talk-GB] 'Easy' Speciality Map Rendering

2011-02-22 Thread Andy Allan
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Graham Jones grahamjones...@gmail.com wrote: I have put some thoughts on what this system would look like on my OSM user page (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Grahamjones#Speciality_Maps). My question is whether many people would find this useful?   Or

Re: [Talk-GB] 'Easy' Speciality Map Rendering

2011-02-22 Thread Graham Jones
Hi Andy, I will certainly have a look at that, thank you - I have not seen that service. I am hoping to make this more than just a hosting service though. This has been reinforced by a couple of off-list converstations I have had where there is a good chunk of making it easy for people to

Re: [Talk-GB] 'Easy' Speciality Map Rendering

2011-02-22 Thread Tom Chance
Graham, One thing you could usefully document – an in an easy-to-read, visual, engaging way rather than dense jargon-filled wiki pages – and publicise is how to use built-in support in OpenLayers. For example, it’s not all that hard to download some interesting data via XAPI (if it were a bit

[Talk-GB] 'Easy' Speciality Map Rendering

2011-02-21 Thread Graham Jones
Hi Folks, We have had a few interesting discussions both on and off this list about some speciality map overlays that I had put together to entertain myself (things like canals, historical sites, railways, power stations etc.) - the sort of things that I have on http://maps.webhop.net. I have