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Marcos Dione<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@vwbusguy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>vwbusguy</span></a></span> From elevation data I derive four datasets: slope angle, elevation based colors, contour lines and hill shades. The latter could be made with <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/Blender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blender</span></a>, and it looks awesome, but its _really_ expensive and I haven't managed to fully automate it, so I use a tool called <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/GDAL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GDAL</span></a> like everybody else. Besides that, I use almost the same stack as <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/OpenStreetMap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenStreetMap</span></a>: <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/carto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>carto</span></a>-css for styling, <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/mapnik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mapnik</span></a> for rendering, and my own set of tools for orchestrating and serving that.</p>
거윈 🍉🌾<p><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/OpenStreetMap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenStreetMap</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/InTheWild" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InTheWild</span></a></p><p>While reviewing plans for a hiking trip, this agency's website described a feature map as "Google Map".</p><p>Clicking on the label takes you to GMaps, but the embedded map itself, which you can browse freely, is obviously made with @OpenStreeetMap, specifically the <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Mapnik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mapnik</span></a> layer. :mastolol:</p>
Marcos Dione<p>OK, so <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/mapnik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mapnik</span></a> is not the best right now for me. What other <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/OpenStreetMap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenStreetMap</span></a> to <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/raster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>raster</span></a> tiles are there? Specially if it has a text based style language. I could even try to write a compiler from osm-carto to that.</p><p><a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/GIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GIS</span></a> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/GISChat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GISChat</span></a></p>
andre<p>Wer kennt sich mit <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/openstreetmap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openstreetmap</span></a> aus?<br><a href="https://openstreetmap.de/karte/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">openstreetmap.de/karte/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Bei gewissen Zoom-Stufen sehe ich Fehler bei Gütersloh.</p><p>Wo kann ich das melden?</p><p><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/OpenstreetmapDe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenstreetmapDe</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Openstreetmap_de" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Openstreetmap_de</span></a><br><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/mapnik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mapnik</span></a></p>
map5.nl - Dutch Topomaps<p>All about High Quality/Retina Tiles for the map5topo.nl topographic map in map5.nl Newsletter 17:<br><a href="https://us10.campaign-archive.com/?u=dc76804d91aeb81849bd5071c&amp;id=29b0db5e39" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">us10.campaign-archive.com/?u=d</span><span class="invisible">c76804d91aeb81849bd5071c&amp;id=29b0db5e39</span></a><br>Notice difference, as first visit to optician:</p><p>Thanks to <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/MapProxy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MapProxy</span></a> <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/Mapnik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mapnik</span></a> <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/OpenLayers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenLayers</span></a> <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/Leaflet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Leaflet</span></a> working in concert!</p>
Alexander Dunkel<p>A <a href="https://himself.alexanderdunkel.com/tags/map" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>map</span></a> <a href="https://himself.alexanderdunkel.com/tags/tile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tile</span></a> <a href="https://himself.alexanderdunkel.com/tags/service" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>service</span></a> with a great custom <a href="https://himself.alexanderdunkel.com/tags/scheme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scheme</span></a> from my colleague Dr. Mathias Gröbe.</p><p><a href="https://maptiles.geo.tu-dresden.de/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">maptiles.geo.tu-dresden.de/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://himself.alexanderdunkel.com/tags/mapnik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mapnik</span></a> <a href="https://himself.alexanderdunkel.com/tags/vectortiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vectortiles</span></a> <a href="https://himself.alexanderdunkel.com/tags/mapproxy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mapproxy</span></a></p>
Marcos Dione<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@dcz" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>dcz</span></a></span> property-wise, <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/cartocss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cartocss</span></a> is a thin layer on top of <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/mapnik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mapnik</span></a> XML:</p><p><a href="https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/wiki/XMLConfigReference" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/mapnik/mapnik/wiki/</span><span class="invisible">XMLConfigReference</span></a></p><p>As for the operators, check:</p><p><a href="https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/wiki/Filter" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/mapnik/mapnik/wiki/</span><span class="invisible">Filter</span></a></p><p>Make sure you read the examples, because it has more types of expressions that are not defined elsewhere, I think.</p><p>Finally <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/OSM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OSM</span></a> 's style has more examples, but it might be tedious to read them all:</p><p><a href="https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/gravitystorm/openst</span><span class="invisible">reetmap-carto</span></a></p>
Bryan Fink<p>I’m tinkering with <a class="hashtag" href="https://couch.beerriot.com/tag/map" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#map</a> rendering, and I have to ask …&nbsp;what did everyone move to after <a class="hashtag" href="https://couch.beerriot.com/tag/mapnik" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mapnik</a>?</p><p>At least, it seems like Mapnik was at one time the most popular way to render raster tiles. But following its doc/tutorial links now is a maze of:</p><ul><li>Statement: we support XML, Python, and C++</li><li>XML doc: here’s a python snippet to produce/render some XML generated by another python snippet</li><li>Python doc: WARNING this does not work with Mapnick 3.0+ (a seven year old release? did everyone stay on 2.x?)</li><li>C++ doc: <em>there is no C++ doc</em></li><li>Find more info on LearnToMapnik … which is the page that led me to each of these</li></ul><p>If I want to render small tiles of <a class="hashtag" href="https://couch.beerriot.com/tag/openstreetmap" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenStreetMap</a> data offline, what tool(s) am I looking for?</p>
Pierre Huyghebaert<p>"From 2019, the <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/cartographic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cartographic</span></a> style <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/OpenArdenneMap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenArdenneMap</span></a> is updated every 6 months. OpenArdenneMap is a cartographic style for topographic maps based on <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/OSM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OSM</span></a> data.OpenArdenneMap was originally developed as a cartographic style with the <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/imposm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>imposm</span></a> importer and a <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/cartoCSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cartoCSS</span></a> style derived from <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/OSMBright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OSMBright</span></a>. Later the <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/osm2pgsqlimporter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>osm2pgsqlimporter</span></a> was used instead of the imposm. From 2023, the OpenArdenneMap is also available in <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/QGIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QGIS</span></a>" <br><a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/mapnik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mapnik</span></a> <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cartography</span></a> <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/belgium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>belgium</span></a><br><a href="https://www.nobohan.be/2023/03/02/openardennemap-hiver-22-23/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nobohan.be/2023/03/02/openarde</span><span class="invisible">nnemap-hiver-22-23/</span></a></p>
MapAm💜re<p><a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/Mapnik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mapnik</span></a>, the <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/OpenStreetMap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenStreetMap</span></a> default layer now renders unpaved roads differently.</p><p>It is now visually distinct from other highways, based on the surface=* tags.</p><p>Other map renderers, of course, handled this differently.</p>
nilocram<p><a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/MyOSMatic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MyOSMatic</span></a> è un servizio web basato su <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/softwarelibero" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>softwarelibero</span></a> che permette di creare e stampare in diversi formati <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/mappe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mappe</span></a> cittadine costruite su dati di <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/OpenStreetMap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenStreetMap</span></a>: <a href="https://maposmatic.osm-baustelle.de/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">maposmatic.osm-baustelle.de/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/OSM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OSM</span></a> <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/mapnik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mapnik</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://framapiaf.org/@maupao" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>maupao</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.uno/@informapirata" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>informapirata</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.uno/@filippodb" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>filippodb</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.uno/@ItaLinuxSociety" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ItaLinuxSociety</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.uno/@scuola" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>scuola</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.uno/@lealternative" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>lealternative</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://framapiaf.org/@wikimediaitalia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>wikimediaitalia</span></a></span></p>