OpenSantaMap

Contents 1 Aim 2 Domain 3 Ideas 4 Practical Considerations 5 Seasonal Tagging 6 Attempts 7 Working Maps 8 Links

Aim

A special seasonal rendering for Xmas 2008.

Domain

Smsm1 has bought opensantamap.org

Ideas

• The style sheet should have a snowy background
• Pubs should blink on and off.
• Random snowmen in parks etc
• Crashed sleighs into buildings
• Colours to change to green and red, and gaudy.
• Tacky MIDI Christmas background music
• Render traffic_signals as Christmas trees.
• Show local subsidiaries of Santa Clause
• Skating locations
• Santa's markets
• Show where a Real White Christmas is Happening (this takes some real time effort of members)
• Sleigh shops
• Rendeer parks ;<)
• Romantic Places (christmas style)
• Toy shops
• Igloo icon on the north pole (there are quite a few poles we should tag them all http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-earth-has-more-than-one-north-pole)
  • No, no, no! Santa lives at Korvatunturi(coordinates included)
• Show public uploaded clickable pictures with Christmas theme (on coordinates)
• Let the public create localized christmas cards, make them clickable
• Any house that has thousands of christmas lights and stuff should be marked as a POI (tagged as christmas_lights=yes)
• Turkey farms!
• Snow draped across the top of each continent at small scales
• Default map center, north pole (lat 90, lon 0)
• Your idea....

Practical Considerations

Osmarenderer?

Mapnik?

Mapserver?

Graphics, new icons?

☃ Unicode Character 'SNOWMAN' (U+2603) ☃ etc.

Openlayers themed colours

Mercator is not a good projection for interesting stuff near the north pole.

It is better for land not to be very white, snowmen, snowballs, and santa beards will show up better.

Seasonal Tagging

• christmas_lights=yes
• shop=toys
• place=north_pole|south_pole, type=geomagnetic|magnetic|celestial|...
• ice_skating=yes
• place=farm, turkeys=yes

Attempts

• Edgemaster has done some mapnik hackery to produce the image to the right...
  

  

  Edgemaster's Mapnik hackery. Massive snowflake symbols!
• LastGrape/Gregory (LwD) is doing a mashup with snowing locations (and thinking up better ways to start as he goes on with his first way).
• LastGrape/Gregory (LwD) has also created some icons, note that snowman.png is used for the snow locations.

Working Maps

• New for 2012! The Xmas map of germany
• There's a Christmas-Category in OpenStreetBrowser: http://www.openstreetbrowser.org/#?categories=xmas

Links

DE:Tag:xmas - xmas-market / xmas-tree tag ideas (German)