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 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 available) > *Railways (colour coded by line type - mainline, subway, tram, light rail, > preserved, abandoned etc) > *Railway track width (1, 2 or multiple is available) > *School boundaries > *Car parks > * and more that may be suggested > > ITO will manage all the data hosting, scripts and tile rendering. The > service will be available globally and the data will be updated daily. > > Initially we will define the scripts to avoid to much rendering work for > our servers. Our intention is to then release the 'scripting' to allow > people to create and publish their own scripts. > > > > More details soon! > > > > Regards, > > > > Peter > > > > On 22 February 2011 13:56, Tom Chance <t...@acrewoods.net> wrote: > >> 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 more >> reliable) and display it as a layer in an OpenLayers. A little bit of code >> can also provide a popup bubble containing the tags associated with the >> feature. >> >> >> >> This is a good deal easier than rendering a new set of map tiles. >> >> >> >> Here are a couple of examples: >> >> http://tomchance.dev.openstreetmap.org/trees.html >> >> http://tomchance.dev.openstreetmap.org/emptyshops.html >> >> >> If the data set isn't too large, this would work fine for maps of canals >> and locks as well. >> >> >> You can use CloudMade's style editor to create a suitable set of map >> tiles, too, if the default OpenStreetMap/OpenCycleMap/etc. tiles don't suit >> your needs. >> >> >> >> Tom >> >> >> On 22 February 2011 13:03, Graham Jones <grahamjones...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> 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. >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Talk-GB mailing list >>> Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org >>> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> http://tom.acrewoods.net http://twitter.com/tom_chance >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-GB mailing list >> Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >> >> > -- Graham Jones Hartlepool, UK.
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