OpenStreetMap
The last of the tiles for my uk rail map are uploading now, and it's looking rather good.
http://kaerast.blogbound.com/ukrail.html
I've not gone to a very high level of zoom because it's taking forever to render tiles, and I want to learn what to do with it next - ie. how to make it searchable and routable, how to only render changed tiles in the future, how to find a spare server for rendering/hosting this, etc.
Discussion
Ulasan smsm1 terhadap 15 Disember 2008 pada 23:59
This is awesome.
Ulasan njd27 terhadap 6 Januari 2009 pada 13:16
Wonderful work. I wonder would it be possible to render water features on the map to give a bit more context?
Ulasan kaerast terhadap 6 Januari 2009 pada 13:31
What did you have in mind? If it's easily retrieved using xapi and adds context then I don't see why not.
Ulasan njd27 terhadap 6 Januari 2009 pada 14:46
The main thing is that London looks rather strange without the Thames at the moment. But it does give some idea of relief elsewhere in the country. I don't know if anyone has a set of base tiles with shaded relief from the SRTM data?
I guess you'd need waterway=riverbank/river.
Ulasan njd27 terhadap 6 Januari 2009 pada 14:52
I did find the recipe for doing hill shading in the end
osm.wiki/HikingBikingMaps#Hill_Shading
Apologies if this doesn't interest you!
Ulasan kaerast terhadap 6 Januari 2009 pada 16:51
Hill shading is going to use a lot more cpu and memory than the little rendering server I'm using has. It's struggling with the addition of waterways. I'm aiming to come back to this tomorrow to at least add in the Thames, for rail maps I'd consider hill shading overkill but you've got me interested now so I may try and add it.