TopOSM looks like a good candidate for a hack session at SOTM-US. Let me know if you are interested so I can find a room for people to meet on July 25th.
On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 9:37 AM, Bill Ricker <bill.n1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > -- @osm_seattle osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch
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