rendering

Golf course style for OpenStreetMap

rw — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 21:54:56 -0400

In July 2009, Peter Miller wondered aloud on the OpenStreetMap-talk mailing list, if detailed rendering of golf courses was coming to OpenStreetMap? It's a fair question and one that has run through the mind of any OpenStreetMap enthusiast who has spent an afternoon at a good walk ruined. read more »

Make a planet file

rw — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:18:08 -0400

If you are reading these articles in the order that they are published, then there are several steps missing between Make your first Map and this one. Sorry. I'll fill in the rest soon. This appears not yet to be documented elsewhere. So it is probably worth jumping ahead for this one.

This article deals with OpenStreetMap API v0.5 read more »

Background

Badges? Badges?

rw — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:57:12 -0400

Come on. The new highway shields are nice, but the map in North America just isn't there yet. Our continental cousins may be satisfied with generic oval highway markers, but that just doesn't measure up in the New World.

The new markers, shown above, turned up on mapnik recently. They seem more refined than the rectangular signs used previously and they are very pretty. But they just aren't right for North America. read more »