[OSM-dev] StyleSheet Generator for OSM [GSoC'12]

[Parveen Arora]

Hi All,

I want to apply for OSM GSoC.
I am having idea of "StyleSheet Generator for OSM", i.e. users can
create style-sheets of their own choice based upon their own
preferences and requirements and those stylesheets can be used using
any renderer.

Using this maps for Map for visually handicapped can be created
easily, the one who can't read small fonts or are having color
blindness, so that maps suitable for them can be easily available.
This can have many more benefits like any one who wants to show
particular roads or points on the map can generate the style-sheets
for that.

One more thing is that there is lot of work already has been done to
set up map tile server that one can easily do that using few commands,
and that can be more useful applied with stylesheet generator.

Please let me know If something similar already exist so that I can
check that and can look for improvements in that if required.

If there is nothing exist similar, this can be feasible during the
GSoC time period.

Please give your valuable suggestions, feedback and improvements or
anything else that can be done along with this idea.

Thank You.

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[Alex Barth]

Here are "30 min make your own OSM map with TileMill" instructions by AJ Ashton that points to a quite comprehensive OSM style sheet.

http://mapbox.com/blog/create-a-custom-map-of-your-city-in-30-minutes-with-tilemill-and-openstreetmap/

I've made this map with it using a geofabrik download:

http://tiles.mapbox.com/lxbarth/map/OSMBrightBosnia

On Mar 27, 2012, at 4:12 AM, Graham Jones wrote:

> Hi Parveen,
> Sorry for the delay in replying, I had missed this email.
>
> I like the idea of making it easy for less technical users to create their own maps. You are right that it is now (relatively) easy to set up a tile server given the work that has been done packaging the main tools, but creating a map style is quite a task, and even customising the default OSM one is daunting.
>
> Therefore I think a project based on helping people create custom map styles is a good thing.
>
> To turn your idea into a good proposal, I think you need to address the following:
> • How will this work - is it a text file that the user edits manually, or will there be a graphical interface?
> • If it is a graphical system, is it a desktop application or a web based one? In either case, how will you go about it?
> • Will it work on mapnik XML style sheets, or carto CSS ones.....or maybe the CSS style used by KothicJS and others?
> • It would be good to compare your ideas to TileMill, which is going a long way to doing what you are proposing, but I think we lack a tilemill (carto) base style for OSM data to customise (I have some very simple ones, but they are way off the complexity of the standard OSM mapnik style). One of last year's Mapnik GSoC projects may have created an XML to carto converter, which could help? Therefore one possibility may be to use tilemill as a base for the project.
> The simplest step forward, which I think would be useful would be to extend the use of entities in the existing XML stylesheet so that all of the styles for drawing the various components are defined in a single place, separated from the more complicated bits, but I have not looked at how feasible this is given the support for various zoom levels in the style sheet - it may not be much simpler (but could maybe have a file for each zoom level?).
>
> Anyway, these are just a few thoughts to help you put together a proposal which you would like to work on, and are confident in being able to achieve in the GSoC timescale.
>
> Regards
>
>
> Graham.

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[Sajjad Anwar]

On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Parveen Arora <ma...@parveenarora.in> wrote:

Hi All,

I want to apply for OSM GSoC.
I am having idea of "StyleSheet Generator for OSM", i.e. users can
create style-sheets of their own choice based upon their own
preferences and requirements and those stylesheets can be used using
any renderer. 

Using this maps for Map for visually handicapped can be created
easily, the one who can't read small fonts or are having color
blindness, so that maps suitable for them can be easily available.
This can have many more benefits like any one who wants to show
particular roads or points on the map can generate the style-sheets
for that.

 

If the stylesheet generator have a proper use case like the above, I would totally vote for it. I wouldn't want to see another stylesheet converter though.

Also, if you can provide presets for stylesheets and help people to tweak that in a proper GUI, that would be interesting. But I guess tilemill does that job right now pretty well.

One more thing is that there is lot of work already has been done to
set up map tile server that one can easily do that using few commands,
and that can be more useful applied with stylesheet generator.

Please let me know If something similar already exist so that I can
check that and can look for improvements in that if required.

If there is nothing exist similar, this can be feasible during the
GSoC time period.

Please give your valuable suggestions, feedback and improvements or
anything else that can be done along with this idea.

Thank You.

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Parveen Arora
www.parveenarora.in
E-Mail: ma...@parveenarora.in

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