Hi! I was wondering if there is some standalone application (preferable for PC) to view OSM data as a map, but dynamically and locally (not from some random computer on the Internet) rendered.
We already have a large number of websites which show OSM data in all sorts of different styles and this is pretty cool. But I think all of them do not show OSM in its full glory, and they are all tailored to a specific use case. The www.openstreetmap.org style is already pretty nice IMO but this is of course not useful for all use cases. Also most of the websites them use a pre-rendered “base layer” and just put symbols on top of that. This is not what I want. Therefore, the KDE program “Marble” does not count. It is able to show OSM, but it's just the pre-rendered default layers of www.openstreetmap.org. JOSM kinda does what I want, but it is obviously not tailored towards *viewing* map data for everyday usage. What I want is an application which renders OSM data directly and based on configurable user settings, i.e. switching on and off certain features (like country borders) is as simple as clicking a checkbox. As an analogy, Google Earth has such a feature where you can toggle some map features, but it is not based on OSM, obviously and also it is rather limited in that sense. So I wonder, is there already such a tool which has such features? Or at least a *similar* tool. It would be very cool if the tool can render from OSM data directly, but if some manual conversion would be needed, that would be okay. I should give some examples: The program could have a checkbox somewhere to toggle country borders. So you click the checkbox and they disappear. Or you could have a map where only lanterns or whatever are displayed. Or a map where only the surface or landuse types are rendered. Etc. etc. Everything should be created dynamically. The reason why I am looking for such a tool is because I think it would be really useful in many aspects. In case no such program exists, I wonder if there has been made any attempt to create such a program (at least). -- Wuzzy XMPP: wuz...@jabber.ccc.de E-Mail: wuz...@mail.ru _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
