OpenSantaMap

Aim

A special seasonal rendering for Xmas.

Chippy is current owner of opensantamap.org (website not available)

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....

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.

xmas:feature=* - is a whole key for (somewhat temporary) xmassy features. xmas-market / xmas-tree tag ideas used a lot by german mappers for http://be2art.de/xmasmap/#

More generally we might pick out things from our regular map data such as...

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.