In this post i am going to introduce what i have been working on at the last Karlsruhe Hack Weekend in terms of map design and some further work i did continuing that work in the weeks afterwards. What i … Continue reading →

While working on the rendering of parking features that i discussed in the previous post i also came to implement some features and address some problems that are not strictly about parking but design wise related. And those i want … Continue reading →

In the previous post i introduced the basic concepts of how parking infrastructure is mapped in OpenStreetMap and how this is so far shown in most maps. I also discussed that there is an extensive spectrum of secondary tags used … Continue reading →

Parking of vehicles that are not in use is one of the most peculiar aspect of our present day societies dominated by individually owned automobile transport. Typical numbers quoted for the time cars – on average – spend in parking … Continue reading →

In the previous post i discussed how a relatively simple feature addition to Mapnik called anchors, which allows conditionally connecting the rendering of some visual elements to that of other elements in the map in a freely customizable way, can … Continue reading →

I could not be at the Karlsruhe Hack Weekend this time, but i did some hacking work during that and the following week i wanted to write about here. Back in May i discussed in depth the problem of visualizing … Continue reading →