Re: [Talk-GB] Mapnik styling

2018-01-23 Thread Jez Nicholson
Thanks Jerry and Andy, Plenty to keep me going there :) I'm getting on fairly well with transforming Ordnance Survey open styles from Geoserver SLD (xml) to Mapnik XML as they are fairly similar. The OSM styles are helping me see how things could be styled. Potentially I will generate some

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapnik styling

2018-01-23 Thread Andy Townsend
On 23/01/2018 13:21, Jez Nicholson wrote: I am currently working with mapnik to render Ordnance Survey VectorMap District. Which is the 'best' stylesheet format to use? Mapnik XML or CartoCSS or a.n.other? Of the two I'd definitely suggest CartoCSS rather than raw Mapnik XML - I've tried

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapnik styling

2018-01-23 Thread SK53
Carto-CSS without a doubt is the easiest; native Mapnik styles become cumbersome fairly rapidly. You will be best off using Kosmtik for visualising the style: see switch2osm for installation instructions. TileMill only supports an old version of Mapnik. Andy's instructions for running under