> I got as far as getting it running and managed, through typing "zoom-out" and > "zoom-in" about 50 times each, to get to the right area of the map, and > downloaded the OSM data.
I wouldn't know about Linux, but on Windows you just click on the map, drag it around and zoom in and out using the mousewheel. > But, not wanting to knock the hard work of you or others, even before I > looked at making style changes, it seemed fairly clear that the text > rendering wasn't nearly as nice as Mapnik's. I wouldn't disagree but it depends what you mean. You are looking at the default rules, don't forget, and they sometimes lag behind the features available (like offsetting the text from an icon, for instance). > I'm developing a whole new appreciation of how hard it is to write a map > renderer which produces beautiful maps! Quite! :-) It's still very much a work in progress. I think if you were to join the Google group we could take the conversation offline. Igor has prioritised his development work in the past when people have had specific requirements - he's a helpful guy and wants to make it a success! Regards, Steve > -----Original Message----- > From: talk-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-boun...@openstreetmap.org] > On Behalf Of Gervase Markham > Sent: 06 June 2010 15:45 > To: talk@openstreetmap.org > Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Custom rendering of a small map > > On 06/06/10 13:52, Seventy 7 wrote: > > Yes, Maperitive would be ideal. Although the SVG export is not yet done, > > quality (ie large) bitmaps can be done with a "scale" command to smooth > > out pixellation. > > I got as far as getting it running (it needs System.Window.Forms; on > Ubuntu, run > sudo apt-get install libmono-winforms* > ) and managed, through typing "zoom-out" and "zoom-in" about 50 times > each, to get to the right area of the map, and downloaded the OSM data. > But, not wanting to knock the hard work of you or others, even before I > looked at making style changes, it seemed fairly clear that the text > rendering wasn't nearly as nice as Mapnik's. > > I'm developing a whole new appreciation of how hard it is to write a map > renderer which produces beautiful maps! > > > You might also like to have a look at Maposmatic > > http://www.maposmatic.org/ as it has SVG export. > > That seems just to produce SVG of the default Mapnik style, which I can > already get from http://www.openstreetmap.org/. > > Gerv > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > -- _______________________________________________ Surf the Web in a faster, safer and easier way: Download Opera 9 at http://www.opera.com _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
