On 29 Jan 2008, at 21:21, Gervase Markham wrote: > Chaps, > > As always, forgive me if this is an old issue, but: I noticed that an > organisation I have contact with has a map in their "how to get here" > leaflet, which they may well have just copied from somewhere. I'd like > to recommend they use an OSM map instead, but looking at the area: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/? > lat=51.45561&lon=-0.96828&zoom=16&layers=B0FT > I find that the area they would screenshot is covered with crudely- > drawn > pint glasses.[0] > > Are there any plans to either: > > a) put layers into the Slippy Map so people can remove unwanted data > such as this; or: > b) set up a web service so that people can have custom maps (of > reasonably small areas) rendered according to their specified > criteria? > > Asking them to install and configure their own copy of Mapnik seems > somewhat unreasonable... > > Gerv > > [0] Note: the purpose of this message is _not_ to have a dig at the > icon > designer. But you must admit they are fairly simple icons. >
Gervase, Get your organisation to contact me (http://mapnik.org). I am able to render whatever flavor, with or without pub icons, any size map. Kind Regards Artem > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
