On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 10:06 AM, Lars Ahlzen <l...@ahlzen.com> wrote:
TopOSM was never rendered on-the-fly. It's just a (very large) set of > static tiles (currently hosted by Stamen). > > And that's appreciated. 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. > Yes and yes > Would it be would be worth picking it up again? > yes, but which goal? reordered: > 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. > > If the horsepower to render it real-time is available, it would be nice to have, but seems unnecessary. Cyclically updating periodically on a background process would likely be good enough. For 'real time', cycle-map is good enough. The elegance of TopOsm is worth waiting for. -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux
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