This article is a step-by-step guide to render your own sea charts. I assume that you have already installed it to your system. If not, download the latest version and run ./configure and make and make install as usual. Make … Continue reading
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Routino/Kannix/Level2 English Map Croatian Map … Continue reading
Smrender is a generic renderer which generates raster images out of OSM data. A user-defined ruleset is applied to the OSM data to create the final output image. The primary goal of Smrender is to create high-quality charts suitable for … Continue reading
Smrender on Windows 7 Yesterday, I started a Windows-VM because I had to test something. I took this opportunity to try to compile Smrender within Cygwin and it worked out of the box 🙂 Great success! There were a few … Continue reading
Originally, I intended to give this posting the title “Anything that can go wrong…” but I decided that Smrender and my talk is more important than Murphy’s law. But stay tuned! You will read what happend. Yesterday I gave a … Continue reading
The latest version 1.1.r1230 of Smrender now implements a new feature which I call polyline refinement. It highly improves the appearance of the map specifically in such areas which are just “roughly” mapped. Ideally, it is applied to the coastline, … Continue reading
Rendering Depths with Smrender I started to experiment with the rendering of depths with Smrender. At a first glance this looks trivial but one might err. OSM data as well as a chart is just a two-dimensional plane. So, where’s … Continue reading
After publishing Smrender I got several mails regarding the compilation and installation process. Mainly because I just used a simple Makefile and because it was not tested on other operation systems beside my Linux computer. Thanks to all beta testers … Continue reading
It was hard work to create smrender and it was even more work to create a documentation for it. And both are not finished yet. But nevertheless I decided to release it now. I have talked a lot about it … Continue reading
Smrender About two months ago we started a completely new projected, originally just as my personal intention. It is a new rendering software for OSM data, just because currently there are just two popular renderers, these are Mapnik and Osmarender. … Continue reading