I'm a bushwalker and I'm attempting to map the Blue Mountains, including roads, tracks, cliffs and watercourses. A key reason is that I'd like to be able to use OSM to auto-generate maps for my website, which I currently have to create by hand eg http://ozultimate.com/bushwalking/walk/239/bob_turners_track01.pdf My maps also don't have contours, which I would like.
Most bushwalkers use and are used to "normal" contour maps such as those produced by the NSW Dept of Lands. I'd suggest keeping a style sheet similar to them. I have maps for other states and they are similar, though each has its variations. For examples, have a look at http://imagery.maps.nsw.gov.au/ Zoom in and select Topographic maps (Current series) under Display images Other than contours, the key things bushwalkers want to see for navigation are: - tracks - render as dashed black line - width/length of of dash dependent on difficulty/visibility - current mapnik rendering is ok for normal tracks, perhaps should be a little longer - fire trails with car=no as longer thick black dash - fire trails with car=yes as red dash - ideally there needs to be more granularity of track difficulty - track_visibility=* is probably useful - sac_scale=* is less useful as it is too specific to alpine areas - however, something indicating difficulty/exposure would be useful - harder tracks would have shorter/thinner black dash - cliffs - render as solid red line with ticks on the cliff side - watercourses - render as solid blue or dashed blue line depending on width eg - river - wide solid blue - stream - thin solid blue - intermittent stream - thin dashed blue - main deficiency in tagging is the need for an intermittent watercourse tag eg waterway=stream_non_perennial or intermittent=yes - waterfalls - render as thin blue line across watercourse - above features should all have names render - other topographic features like peaks, passes, ranges, ridges, spurs, valleys - should have names render but probably no other marker - some of those (eg ridges, spurs) don't seem to have any method in OSM (proposed or otherwise) for tagging at the moment cheers ---- t...@ozultimate.com Canyoning? try http://ozultimate.com/canyoning Bushwalking? try http://ozultimate.com/bushwalking On 15/06/2010 7:57 PM, John Smith wrote: > Some of us were discussing making a custom hiking map styles on IRC > earlier so we can print out such maps or use them in presentations to > show bush walkers the potential of what they can get back out of OSM. > > I don't think any of us has had much to do with hiking maps, so is > anyone on this list an experienced hiker that could help us come up > with a suitable hiking map style sheet? > > I've also been playing with contour lines on OSM map tiles, but I > think instead of cluttering up the common mapnik rendering this would > be better in a hiking style. > > http://maps.bigtincan.com/?z=14&ll=-27.097,152.532&layer=B0000000000TT > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > Talk-au@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au > _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
