Month: August 2016

I added some more improvements to my MapOSMatic instance:

• selecting a GUI language works again
• slippy maps are now created with Leaflet instead of OpenLayers
• rendered maps list and details page now show rendered area
• city search is fast again

(details below)

Continue reading “OpenLayers -> Leaflet and other improvements”

I just returned from FrOSCon in St. Augustin, Germany, where I had a talk on Creating printable maps, (with Video recording), and another one on GIS features in MariaDB and MySQL (not recorded)

Especially the “printable maps” one went pretty well, and several great ideas and feature requests were brought up in the Q&A part and in the hallway discussion afterwards …

I just returned from this years OSM Summer Camp, held in combination with the sixth FOSSGIS hacking event in and around the Linuxhotel.

Aside from celebrating the 12th OSM birthday I continued to hack on my local href=”MapOSMatic instance, the web editor for printable neighborhood maps, and MariaDB/MySQL and SpatiaLite backends for osm2pgsql.

Continue reading “OSM Summer Camp 2016 – Essen”

I created a new web frontend to the MapOSMatic rendering backend that supports putting POI markers on a slippy map and then renders a map with markers set on the map and a customized index sidebar that contains given marker titles and icons.

There’s also preliminary documentation and, of course, a GitHub repository for it.

Continue reading “Customize POI maps for your neighbourhood”