> On May 21, 2016, at 7:06 AM, Lars Ahlzen <l...@ahlzen.com> wrote:
> 
> On 05/20/2016 10:58 PM, Richard Welty wrote:
>> On 5/20/16 9:24 PM, Clifford Snow wrote:
>>> I was just on TopOSM [1] which appears to be very outdated. Does
>>> anyone know who maintains this site?
>>> 
>>> [1] http://toposm.ahlzen.com/
>> lars ahlzen maintains it. not sure if he's still monitoring this list
>> closely or not.
> 
> I do. It's pretty out of date indeed.
> 
> TopOSM was never rendered on-the-fly. It's just a (very large) set of static 
> tiles (currently hosted by Stamen). To update it I'd have to either re-render 
> and upload the entire set, or improve it until it can be rendered in real 
> time. I was working on the latter [1] but never quite finished it.
> 
> There's already the OSM cycle map which has a lot of the same features, 
> though with a slightly different focus. I guess one advantage of something 
> like toposm is that it can use higher-resolution data from sources like USGS, 
> and uses US conventions for things like units, symbols and other cartographic 
> details.
> 
> Would it be would be worth picking it up again?
> 
> - Lars
> 
> [1] https://github.com/Ahlzen/TopOSM2
> 
> 

I like the style used to generate it and if it were current as far as OSM data 
would use it and recommend it to others.

Thanks!

-Tod


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