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 develop their own styles (without the overhead of setting up a rendering tool-chain), and most importantly providing straightforward documentation on how to do it. Maybe I should think a bit more about documentation first rather than concentrating so much on code! Graham. On 22 February 2011 10:19, Andy Allan <gravityst...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 has > someone > > already done it but I have not found it? > > The guys over at wikimedia do this with their toolserver (amongst > other things) - producing both custom background layers and custom > overlays. For example, > > > http://toolserver.org/~osm/styles/?lat=52.49436&lon=13.28916&zoom=12&layers=0000F0FT0000F0FFFB000T > > ... is a black and white mapnik, with hillshading and power > distribution overlays. Documentation is a bit sparse but there's some > at > > https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/OpenStreetMap > > Anyone can develop a map style and ask to get it rendered. As part of > the toolserver project many of the tools needed for this kind of thing > were developed / used - e.g. hstore in osm2pgsql. You should certainly > dig into what they are doing, what kind of hardware they are using and > so on. > > Cheers, > Andy > -- Graham Jones Hartlepool, UK.
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