Published by breki on 20 Feb 2009 at 08:07 pm
Kosmos 2.4 – Bugfix Release
photo credit: Dunechaser
Download link for the impatient ones: http://downloads.igorbrejc.net/osm/kosmos/
After a long time (three months actually) a new version of Kosmos is out. It mostly contains fixes for bugs I detected while developing GroundTruth (with which Kosmos shares quite a lot of code). I haven’t really done any work on Kosmos directly ever since I started working on GroundTruth, but I hope to get back in development in the next few months.
One major issue that came up was the fact that a new (or not so new) OSM wiki URL scheme was not supported for rules source URL (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Kosmos_General_Purpose_Rules in addition to the old one http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Kosmos_General_Purpose_Rules). This has now been fixed.
Goodies For The Upcoming 2.5 Release
I do have some other good news: very soon Kosmos will support the new OSM selector syntax that I developed for GroundTruth. This means that the expressions like
will now work in Kosmos. An extended support for selecting relations will also come in the same package:
I will also try to reuse GroundTruth’s wikitext parsing code which is more robust than the old Kosmos’ one, since it allows specifying table columns in more than one line of text.
John on 07 Mar 2009 at 15:49 #
I think a graphical interface for editing the rendering rules (like the new style editor from cloudmade) would be the next step to a perfect rendering tool. At the moment it is very labor-intensive to create a costum style and you have to know how rendering rules actually work.
breki on 07 Mar 2009 at 19:18 #
@John,
I agree, the rules editor has been on my todo list for a long time. Unfortunately GUI development is also labor intensive, so please be patient
John on 07 Mar 2009 at 20:02 #
Good. For inspiration take a look at http://osmarenderfrontend.wordpress.com/ and http://developers.cloudmade.com/projects/show/style-editor Unfortunately i can´t code, but if i can help you in any way, just write me an email.
breki on 08 Mar 2009 at 6:58 #
John,
It’s not that I’m not inspired, it’s just that I’m working on a lot of projects (too many, in fact
) at the same time. The good news is that I’m in the process of finishing the development of http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Isohypse_Binary_File, so hopefully I’ll be able to get back to Kosmos in the spring.