Why do I need to specify the style when importing data to postgis? How should that work with multiple styles? The slightly longer version: I'd like to setup mapnik, so that it supports multiple styles. So far I have managed to get a tile server set up by following the instructions for Ubuntu 18.04 on switch2osm.org (and working around a couple of problems while doing that). Having done that I want to add another style(osm-bright), but when I look at the installation instructions of the "original" openstreetmap.org style https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/blob/master/INSTALL.md then I see that I would have needed to specify that style already when importing the data to postgis: Why does the style influence the database? How can I get multiple style to work? (Like at the german site http://www.openstreetmap.de/karte.html where I can switch between styles on the right.) asked 15 Jul '18, 15:19  anuranpal edited 15 Jul '18, 15:30 |
One Answer:
Different visual styles are written against different database schemas. The osm2pgsql style file transforms OSM data into a particular database schema. Reading through openstreetmap-carto.style is a good enough way to see what it is doing. https://www.openstreetmap.de/karte.html is loading tiles from multiple servers, it is not rendering all the styles available. answered 15 Jul '18, 16:30  maxerickson |
