On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 6:42 AM, Jonathan Waller <jonathanmarkwal...@googlemail.com> wrote: > This clearly shows that we don't have enough people working on the mapnik > component, which since it is the primary rendering for openstreetmap.org is > a bad situation. It is also off-putting for bug reporters since it takes a > bit of effort to read the bug guidelines, create a good bug report etc. and > then you are completely ignored.
I think part of the problem is the high barrier to entry for editing the Mapnik style. I (and likely others) in the past have mentioned that it might be worth transitioning the stylesheet to something like Cascadenik or Carto so that those with CSS experience will find an easier time editing the style. I especially like Carto because it enables easy editing in TileMill, which itself is easy to setup with a Debian package or even a virtual machine image in Windows. We could even have someone setup a public-facing PostGIS database of a large region so that there's no DB setup required for designers to get started working. And while we're at it we should move the stylesheet to Git. :) For the Carto bit, there was a GSoC 2011 project for writing a Mapnik XML to Carto generator, which "*almost* produces valid CSS for the osm.xml": https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/mapnik-users/2011-August/004515.html https://github.com/rundel/carto-parser I think debates on Carto vs. Cascadenik vs. MapCSS vs. whatever should occur in a separate thread. -Josh _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
