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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Smrender is a powerful, flexible, and modular rule-based rendering engine for OpenStreetmap data. Its primary development goal was and still is to develop a renderer for paper nautical charts. Because of its very generic and modular software design it can … Continue reading
Everybody with a handheld GPS device or a smart phone may contribute to the map of OpenStreetmap. In contrast, to contribute to OpenSeamap — which is the OSM-based sea chart variant — it requires to measure the depth of sea. … Continue reading
KAP files (sometimes also referred to as BSB files) are raster images which contains a header with geographic information. Those files are typically used for raster navigational charts. Josm is a powerful editor for Openstreetmap data. There is a plugin … Continue reading
About one month of intensive work and it is done! Smrender now uses libcairo as a graphics library for rendering instead of libgd. The major advantages of this change are qualitiy improvement of the output images, performance improvement, and the … Continue reading
On Day 2 I gave a lightning talk 😀 to shortly introduce Smrender, a programmable OSM data processing engine. I cut out the relevant part of the official video. … Continue reading
Smrender is a powerful and flexible renderer to create paper charts. 🙂 With the latest release several cool improvements have been done. The following list gives a brief overview. Conditional rendering. Support for tile creation. Bounding box may be used … Continue reading
Smrender is a powerful renderer mainly designed to create paper sea charts. I added the feature of tile creation to Smrender which was not really difficult. Smrender is designed to create paper charts but it is easy to cut tiles … Continue reading
There was nearly two months of develop going since my last release of Smrender. Today I released a new version (SVN revision 1326) with a lot of new features. For a quick overview have a look at the News on … 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