Thank you! That worked really, really well! On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 1:49 PM Michael Reichert <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Jonathan, > > Am 23.02.22 um 15:53 schrieb Jonathan J. Bittner: > > I just started doing some ORM development and I'm using kosmtik. While I > > like it, it's sometimes hard to figure out where you are or more > > appropriately, where you are trying to go. > > > > Some areas I can recognize by geography: single lines on peninsulas, > major > > rail hubs like Chicago or Kansas City, by shape/lines once you know the > > area, etc. I can also get a permalink from ORM and put the coordinates > > into the url for kosmtik. > > > > However, I was wondering if there was a way to get the ORM background > > (Mapnik Grayscale) or similar to display behind the renderings from the > MML > > file. There seems to be quite a few additional plugins for kosmtik but > > it's a bit confusing as to what they do or how they work. I've seen ones > > that will render side by side or over but not under. Not sure if I'd > fully > > need to render the "world" or if the grayscale tiles could be pulled in > > from an existing tileserver. > > I often run https://github.com/geofabrik/tileserver-demosite where I > configure the layer served by Kosmtik locally and tiles from osm.org. > > Even more often, I try out changes using Nik4, i.e. I render static map > images (2048x2048 px). > > Best regards > > Michael >
