Another Word For It Patrick Durusau on Topic Maps and Semantic Diversity

November 6, 2011

high road, for better OSM cartography

Filed under: Geographic Data,Geographic Information Retrieval,Maps,Visualization — Patrick Durusau @ 5:43 pm

high road, for better OSM cartography

From the post:

High Road is a framework for normalizing the rendering of highways from OSM data, a critical piece of every OSM-based road map we’ve ever designed at Stamen. Deciding exactly which kinds of roads appear at each zoom level can really be done just once, and ideally shouldn’t be part of a lengthy database query in your stylesheet. In Cascadenik and regular Mapnik’s XML-based layer definitions, long queries balloon the size of a style until it’s impossible to scan quickly. In Carto’s JSON-based layer definitions the multiline-formatting of a complex query is completely out of the question. Further, each system has its own preferred way of helping you handle road casings.

Useful rendering of geographic maps (and the data you attach to them) is likely to be useful in a number of topic map contexts.

PS: OSM = OpenStreetMap.

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