Re: [Talk-GB] UK style rendering port ...

2015-07-27 Thread John Aldridge
I hope this can be done, too, if it makes it easier to be much more responsive about making the renderer respect best UK tagging practice. One of the reasons, IMO, that its difficult to prevent people tagging for the renderer, is that there currently seems to be little attempt, when a tagging

Re: [Talk-GB] Survey: A UK/GB OpenStreetMap group?

2015-07-27 Thread Rob Nickerson
All, Last chance to fill in the UK/GB OSM group survey if you have not already done so. I aim to release the results soon along with suggestions on how we should proceed. This second stage will allow for more comment than the initial survey (with the survey results acting to support any

Re: [Talk-GB] UK style rendering port ...

2015-07-27 Thread SK53
Completely agree with Richard, New rendering styles are a chance to start afresh with the technologies perspectives from 10 (or 11) years worth of experience. This does not just mean vector tiles (although my feeling is these are still 'bleeding-edge'), but also potentially more use of LUA

[Talk-GB] UK style rendering port ...

2015-07-27 Thread Lester Caine
With the discussion on a more self contained 'UK' group I'd like to highlight one area that is becoming perhaps more urgent for some of us, the idea of a UK style tile set. With the current push to make the default mapping more 'google like', retaining the UK colour coding for roads is something

Re: [Talk-GB] UK style rendering port ...

2015-07-27 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Lester Caine wrote: The other area that I am looking to roll back First, I wouldn't think in terms of rolling back at all. Cartography for a UK tileset could and should be designed from scratch. If you really want to start with an existing tileset then use OSM Bright, not osm-carto, but I'm not

Re: [Talk-GB] UK style rendering port ...

2015-07-27 Thread Marc Gemis
The French style: http://tile.openstreetmap.fr/ (mainly icons as far as I know) The German style: http://openstreetmap.de/karte.html (different rendering technology, different road styles, though they want to convert the renderer (style specification) to the same as osm.org) As far as I

Re: [Talk-GB] UK style rendering port ...

2015-07-27 Thread Matthijs Melissen
On 27 July 2015 at 09:06, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: With the discussion on a more self contained 'UK' group I'd like to highlight one area that is becoming perhaps more urgent for some of us, the idea of a UK style tile set. I also think it's a good idea for the UK to create there

Re: [Talk-GB] UK style rendering port ...

2015-07-27 Thread Lester Caine
On 27/07/15 08:43, Richard Fairhurst wrote: Lester Caine wrote: The other area that I am looking to roll back First, I wouldn't think in terms of rolling back at all. Cartography for a UK tileset could and should be designed from scratch. If you really want to start with an existing