[Qgis-user] Ideas for QGIS plugin?

[Aaron Racicot]

I assume he was talking about trying to recreate the nice Mapnik generated
styling (labeling etc) that is found on the OSM website.  I think it would
be pretty much impossible to create such styling with the current state of
labeling etc.

A

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[mailto:qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Martin Dobias
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 4:01 PM
To: Christopher Barker
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Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Ideas for QGIS plugin?

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:43 PM, Christopher Barker
<Chris.Barker at noaa.gov> wrote:
> Paolo Cavallini wrote:
>>>
>>> I've always been confused by that. But anyway, you could do it with Open
>>> Street Map tiles.
>>
>> Better take the vector data from OSM (see my previous suggestion): you
>> can do more with that.
>
> Not if you want a nice streetmap as a basemap for something else -- it
would
> take a lot of work to get QGIS to draw a map nearly as nice as the OSM
ones.
> Indeed, I don't think it's possible.

Chris,
could you please explain your statement why it isn't possible?

Martin
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