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Using TileMill to make OpenStreetMap Map Stylesheets
A short time ago TileMill got support for PostGIS data sources. I’m really excited by this as it means you can use TileMill, which is very easy to use, having a gentle learning curve, to construct your own OpenStreetMap stylesheets and see the data being rendered using your style. This is great! e.g. in less than an hour I made this,
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA
Want a map which just shows the drainage network (which you can see from low zooms)? Easy.
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA
I’m sure I’ll be publishing lots of new styles in the near future, one of which will be a style designed as an aerial image (NearMap) overlay. Exciting times ahead…
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geo, osm
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I’ve begun work on the transparent layer designed for OSM data on top of aerial imagery: https://github.com/andrewharvey/osm-hybrid-carto