Maperitive

Maperitive should be able to repeat the street label if the street is very long. The repeat settings should be configurable as rendering properties, like minimum distance between repeated labels.

Maperitive should support digital elevation model (DEM) data in the GeoTIFF format, not just SRTM HGT.

Maperitive should be able to load the OSM data for rendering from a database, not just from a file.

Maperitive should be able to render maps using different map projections, not just Mercator projection used in Web maps.

Add support for WMS server in order to make overlays comfortably with existing orthophoto or other maps. See http://groups.google.com/group/maperitive/browse_thread/thread/0374912ae1b31998/e6172552c3c95971#e6172552c3c95971

The current rendering rules system has a poor support for OSM relations. What's needed is access to relation's member roles, its tags and tags of its members. This will probably be implemented as part of the Python scripting functionality.

The super-uber-cool command X can't be used if there is no info about it. I understand that every update introduces new commands and features and it is hard for a man to keep track of all the changes, but there are automated tools that create...

Hello, Would it be possible to specify the dash (and empty line) lenght for the dashed lines? It would be extremely usefull for paths distinction for hiking maps. JB

Users should be able to rotate the map so that it doesn't always point "north up". Text labels should not be rotated.

If the multipolygon in an OSM file does not have all of its members, Maperitive doesn't treat it as a closed polygon and the multipolygon does not get color-filled. Maperitive needs a solution similar to coastline rendering: the multipolygon...

It seems that Maperitive doesn't support multiple outer ways forming a ring in multipolygons. As wiki says: "This is useful for multipolygons encompassing very large areas, where it would be impractical to have one way run around the whole of...

Maperitive is able to save the tiles using the classical //.png format .... it would be interesting to make Maperitive able to display these tiles, typically changing the "add-web-map" command to use the tiles folder ....

Please add a page in the documentation, reporting all the default values used for ruleset. (I spent a lot of time trying to disable the bold effect on text and finally I understand that was about text-halo-width and not font-weight :P)

Maperitive currently only supports regular expressions on tag names when matching OSM objects (http://maperitive.net/docs/manual/Querying_Data.html#@isMatch%20Function). Matching tag values would be useful, too.

Ability to export to a gis format would be an unbelievably cool option allowing further processing and analysis on osm data. maybe a quantumgis project file with different .shp layers and a style files to match.

Maperitive has a nice UTM overlay grid. It would be nice to be able to choose a different projection, such as MGRS, OSGB, Irish NG, CH-1903, for the overlay.

When map rotation is implemented, there should be a compass rose with a few placement options like top,top-left, bottom-right etc...

Wouldnt it be cool, you could just zoom and pan in your favourite mapping application without interruptions? I am curious if it's a lot of work to implement Direct2D [1] into Maperitive. [1]...

It would be fine to have some asymmetrical lines in order to paint cliffs or some roads with cycleways on one side. For cliff rendering in Mapnik see http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-22.135435&lon=166.522308&zoom=18&layers=M

... and borders using (predefined) pattern.

For orientation purpose it would be great to have a grid with a predefined scale. This makes navigating and calculating distances in the field easier. (if the map is printed off course) It shouldn't be to hard to implement a way to specify your...

Imagine you want to put a shield on all tourist attractions (on points, lines, and areas). Then you can do something like this: features labeled : tourism=attraction rules target : labeled define ... draw : shield...

For example when rendering text for power line you should use voltage=*. The value is something like 100000 which should be rendered as 100 kV. So this can be defined as "replace the end three zeros with space and 'kV' string".

Curves are currently rendered for using a limited GDI+ curving function and are not supported in SVG. A proper solution, probably using Bezier curves, is needed.

There should be a function (similar to line-offset property) for buffering (offsetting) polygons.

Not sure if this is the right place to put this but I recently struck a problem with this combination and Maperative. When looking at the exported bitmaps using the OziExplorer .map files, Land drew the maps upside down and inverted. I checked...

It would be very nice to have one more rendering ruleset in maperitive to obtain maps such as this (with hamlet names) : http://francetopo.fr/ (go to zoom level 8) Is someone is clever enough to do this ? It would be very great ! Thanks a...

For some specific maps, all labels should be visible. Currently, part of them are hidden because "colliding" with other. However, the collision distance seems to be much larger than the real text coverage. Would it be possible to switch the...

When rendering shapes or text on a line, the line-offset setting should be taken into account so that the line is offset.

Can you implement "live" crosshair displaying coordinates on mouse position? I believe, that this wouldn't be such a big problem. It helps to identificate problems with placing elements. It can show alternatively on alt key press&hold ...