On 11/8/15 9:04 PM, Paul Norman wrote: > On 11/7/2015 10:18 AM, Kevin Kenny wrote: >> I find lately that it needs a patched Mapnik, because Mapnik (sensibly) >> went to a read-only database connection, and one of Phil's stored >> procedures modifies the database the first time that a shield cluster >> is requested. One of these times I'll fix it. >> >> I'm a little disappointed that none of the 'standard' renderers >> picked this up. > > Phil's demo was an excellent proof of concept of pictorial shields > from route relations, but isn't something that can be reasonably > incorporated into a stylesheet as-is. > https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/596 is the > OpenStreetMap Carto issue for shields from relations, > https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/508 is the > one for pictorial shields. > > When matching shield colours to highway types, it becomes necessary > use fairly complicated SQL to get route relation information[1]. It's > complex enough that it might be a barrier to merging a pull request. > There is an osm2pgsql issue[2] that would make it simpler, but no one > has expressed an interest in taking that on. > > With no one stepping up to work on the issue, nothing will change. I > can't speak with certainty on what other stylesheets have planned, but > I don't expect the HOT style, osm FR, OSM German Carto, OSM Bright or > any other open-source style to be any closer to an implementation, and > I think the proprietary stylesheets are the same. > there are those of us who are interested, but i know that Phil got pretty busy with other stuff and i know i have less than no available time.
so while i'd love to see it happen, negative available time is a major problem. richard -- rwe...@averillpark.net Averill Park Networking - GIS & IT Consulting OpenStreetMap - PostgreSQL - Linux Java - Web Applications - Search
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