On 30/10/2017 17:34, Andy Townsend wrote:
On 30/10/2017 08:58, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
As you may know, the plan is to produce a UK specific OSM mapping
site. A start on this has been made here:
http://www.free-map.org.uk/osmuk/
using a fork of SomeoneElse (Andy)'s cartography with one very minor
tweak so far, namely footpaths and bridleways are rendered in a style
similar to Landranger maps.
Glad to be of service :)
There are a couple of other tweaks you'd probably want to do:
o One is to reinstate cycleways as "a thing".
+1
o Another is railways - I'm guessing you'd want to remove the
rendering of dismantled railways, and also possibly abandoned ones,
I agree with removing all of the above, except where they're co-tagged
with objects which still exist ie disused bridges:
https://map.atownsend.org.uk/maps/map/map.html#zoom=18&lat=51.344207&lon=-2.344501
but I'd suggest keeping proposed ones so that people can see where HS2
is going(!) (as an example,
https://map.atownsend.org.uk/maps/map/map.html#zoom=15&lat=53.11419&lon=-1.31171
shows all three types).
Personally I don't add proposed items & they seem to rarely come to
fruition & often fail to be removed.
Other items:
It's great pedestrian crossings are rendered, but the icon gets
swallowed by the road way.
Could the text size in the legend be increased?
A link to the main site at the same location so the notes & queries
features (right hand side) can be easily accessed.
DaveF
o If you want to do "Welsh Language first in Wales" as described in
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/SomeoneElse/diary/42069 I can make
the load scripts available for that. It's pretty much what's in the
diary entry but is a runnable script.
In terms of server space, we did have a server available to us for
development purposes (provided by Birmingham in Real Time) however
this will be unavailable for a month or two; however our contact
there is going to recommend some cheap hosting options.
For info, the map.atownsend.org.uk site (which covers the UK and
Ireland) currently fits nicely on a 4Gb memory / 100Gb SSD disk server
at Hetzner; at <£15 per month you could probably short-term fund it
with a whip-round in a pub. I'm sure that the other competing options
- OVH et al - are similar; for the size of server I wanted for the UK
Hetzner made sense for me at the beginning of the year; slightly
larger or smaller on any spec parameter and something else might have
been better.
Best Regards,
Andy
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