[Geowanking] Producing printed maps?

[Chris Holmes]

Jo Walsh wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 09:44:27AM +0100, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
>>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Osmarender
>> Yes, I'd second that. Osmarender is stupidly impressive and the one  
>> part of OSM that's currently producing n00b-friendly output.
> 
> Having learnt a little bit by osmosis about how the SLD, Styled Layer
> Description standard works (still reluctant to plough through the
> OGC specification wordmire and finding the geotools API/tutorial docs
> a lot easier on the eyes - cf http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Styles )
> There's a close fit between Osmarender and SLD, to the extent that
> one could be XLST transformable into the other. Which would rock. 

I definitely agree that would rock.  SLD is a pretty good standard, and 
does more or less the same thing as osmarender - defines rules for how 
to style content.  We have another decent introduction in the GeoServer 
docs: http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOSDOC/SLD+Intro+Tutorial

best regards,

Chris


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Chris Holmes
The Open Planning Project
http://topp.openplans.org
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