– A Rule-based Renderer for OSM Data

Description

This is the official home page of Smrender. Smrender is a powerful, flexible, and modular rule-based rendering engine for OSM data. It is mainly intended to create paper charts for print-out but it can be used for tile creation and other tasks as well. Because of its very generic and modular software design it is perfectly suitable for complex OSM data processing and manipulation tasks such as filtering, modification, and statistical analysis. You can find some charts here: /download/smrender/charts/. The most accurate charts are the yellow map style charts of Croatia (updated on 29th of April 2015), which are based on the official sheet lines: download/smrender/charts/croatia/yellow_map/PDF/. You can find some other examples here: /download/smrender/samples/.

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Download

The latest snapshots of version 4.0 of Smrender are are found in the current/ directory.

Older versions of Smrender have been moved to the archive/ directory.

News

• 2015/08/22: new version 4.0 r1854 online!
  
  • Started to add test and demonstrational rules.
  • Implemented measurement unit parser and converter (but not applied to all actions yet).
  • Pixels are internally handled completely as double (and not int).
• 2015/07/25: new version 4.0 r1842 online!
  
  • New function clip() implemented for clipping of white page border.
  • Bugfix in KAP code: artefacts and segfaults in landscape charts.
  • Sea chart ruleset improved.
  • Added new line stlye 'wavy' which may be used to render e.g. underwater cables.
  • Added new line style 'pipe' to render e.g. underwater pipes.
  • Added new line stlye 'rounddot' which is similar to 'dotted' but makes real round dots (which may be visible in high resolutions).
  • Started to add set of test rules for the purpose of testing the renderer after code modifications and to demonstrate rendering capabilities.
  • Added basic translation rules for Greek language (Greek charts).
• 2015/04/27: new version 4.0 r1821 online!
  
  • New function mask() implemented for uncluttering of clusters of objects.
  • Language support in function pchar() of libsmfilter added. Currently supported languages are English, German, and Croatian.
  • Default values of xoff/yoff parameters of function cap() are now font-size dependent.
  • Serveral minor fixes and improvements.
• 2015/02/08: new version 4.0 r1811 online!
  
  • Fixed calculation of rendering window. Projection parameters were slightly incorrect which led to incorrect page border alignment specifically with large scales.
  • Function draw() now support bezier lines for a more smooth rendering of polygons (ways). Use curve=1 (see documentation) to activate this feature. refine_poly() is deprecated instead.
  • Segfault fixed in rules parser.
  • Read filter rewritten (didn't work accidentaly any more after several changes).
  • Fixed severe heap corruption in OSM parser.
  • Added new function translate() to do tag translations. This can be used to translate e.g. specific tags into different languages.
  • Option -o now creates output files in the format given by the file name extension. -O is deprecated instead.
  • Added support for SVG output.
  • Sea chart ruleset further improved.
  • Function img() now supports SVG images (based on librsvg2).
  • Seachart icons are now part of the package as SVGs (ruleset modified accordingly).
  • vsector@libsmfilter supports new parameter 'f'. It is used as scaling factor over all sectors. This is usefule for large scale charts.
  • img() has new parameter 'anglekey' to rotate images based on tags.
  • New command line option '-s' for a global image scaling. This is useful for large scale charts.
  • Modified code for directional filling: CAIRO_OPERATOR_CLEAR removed because it is unsupported by the PDF and SVG surfaces.
• 2014/10/22: new version 4.0 r1709 online!
  
  • Added parameters xoff and yoff to function cap().
  • Updated standard rules.
  • Added Doxyfile and improved code documentation.
  • Fix in in pchar@libsmfilter.so.
  • Added function add() to add OSM nodes to the data directly from the ruleset.
  • Added option -N for renumbering OSM IDs.
  • inherit_tags() can now inherit up and down (not just up).
  • Added function compass()
  to libsmfilter to render magnetic variation compass.
  • Fixed segfault in ruleset loader.
  • Fixed special case of directional filling of function draw() if largest polygon is directed clockwise.
  • Several other minor fixes.
• 2014/09/22: new version 3.0 r1662 online!
  
  • This is the final 3.0 stable release. Further development is running into 4.0. Serious bugs will be back-ported.
    Version 4.0 preview:
    4.0 will provide a native interface to Smrender's internal database. It will be implemented as Websocket, thus giving web-based apps an easy access to OSM data.
    This release contains:
  • Automatic rotation of island captions highly improved. Automatic captions are aligned to the "major axis" of polygons (such as islands).
  • Ruleset updates and fixes.
  • Several minor fixes.
• 2013/11/13: new version 3.0 r1537 online!
  
  • Implemented new action exec() to execute programs and scripts. See documentation for more details.
  • Some fixes in cat_poly() for newly found special cases.
  • Introduced new ruleset which look similar to Imray's Tetra charts.
  • New internal function get_param_bool() added for parsing boolean variables.
• 2013/03/25: new version 3.0 r1484 online!
  
  • cat_poly() has new parameter copy.
  • shape() can produce more complex shapes.
  • Missing support for dashed and dotted lines added again (This was missing since the transition from libgd to libcairo.).
  • cap() is now able to rotate captions based on the value of a tag of a node.
  • Standard map ruleset improved.
  • Source code does now comply to C99.
  • New actions available: zeroway(), split(), inherit_tags(), incomplete().
  • New options available: -D, -n, -V.
  • Code improvements in places.
  All new features are documented in the documentation. Please, see there for details.
• 2013/03/25: new version 3.0 r1408 online!
  
  • The action img() is now applicable to areas (closed ways) which will fill the polygon with the image in a tiled manner.
  • img() supplies the new parameter "scale" for scaling images.
  • The action neighbortile() was improved to check all nodes of a way and not just the first and last.
  • The parameter parser for the action parameters was completely rewritten. It now allows to enclose strings in single or double quotes and escaping with the backslash.
  • New action strfmt() implemented. This allows to create formatted strings in a printf()-style manner.
• 2013/02/11: new version 3.0 r1391 online!
  Smrender now uses libcairo instead of libgd. This improves the quality of the output image and it allows to natively create (vector-based) PDF documents.
• 2013/01/13: new version 2.0 r1362 online!
  
  • Implemented full X11 color table.
  • Smrender now honors the visibility of objects, i.e. invisible objects are ignored.
  • Added a lot of seamark rules.
• 2012/12/28: new version 2.0 r1357 online!
  Fixed a too-verbose-debugging issue.
• 2012/12/28: new version 2.0 r1356 online!
  Implemented new W3C color table. Skeleton library libskel updated.
• 2012/12/12: new version 2.0 r1354 online!
  • Bugfix in OSM file output of relations.
  • Bugfix of coordinate strings of negative (South/West) coordinates.
  • Started parsing/implementation of roles of relations.
• 2012/12/10: There is a bug in the OSM output code for saving relations. This will be fixed soon!
• 2012/12/06: new version 2.0.r1353 online!
  
  • Rule set allows conditional rendering with actions enable_rule() and disable_rule() and the object attribute "visible=true|false".
  • Support for tile creation added.
  • Code reorganized: common functions are moved to libsmrender.so. This enables library support on Windows.
  • The rendering window may now be specified as bounding box as well.
  • Multi-threading support highly improved (but is still experimental and thus not enabled by default).
  • Action cat_poly() now supports optional parameters ign_incomplete and no_corner.
  • Action out() no creates a more compact format and supports relations.
  • Auto-rotation completely rewritten.
  • Out-of-bounds tracking of ways (see function neighbortile()).
  • Several ruleset updates.
  • Several internal improvements and bugfixes.
• 2012/10/23: new version 1.2.r1326 online!
  
  • New action 'ruler' added. It draws a ruler with partitions in kilometers. This feature mainly is intended to be used for either land maps or just maps which are used to show to non-marine people (who do not know about nautical miles;).
  • Grid may now be activated by a rule with the action 'grid'. The options -g and -G are still available and will also be in future because they are more appropriate if smrender is invoked by scripts.
  • New action 'dist_median' which calculates the median of the lengths of the edges of a way.
  • For security reasons the main functions of the actions must now be suffixed by '_main'. Please note that this will break backwards compatibility to old third-party libraries for Smrender.
  • New action 'poly_len' added. It works similar to 'poly_area'.
  • Action 'cap_way' (caption on way) slightly reorganized: if parameter 'size' is missing or set to 'auto' then auto-sizing is in force.
  • Option -u introduced to generate download URLs.
  • Smrender now may read rules from a files in a directory instead of a single file.
  • Experimental multi-threading added (./configure --enable-threads) which may give improvements on huge input files and rendering areas. Don't use in production environments! This feature will be improved in future releases.
  • Experimental action 'diff' added to diff OSM files based on their object IDs.
• 2012/09/07: new version 1.2.r1301 online!
  KAP compression improved.
  Option -K added to generate KAP header only.
• 2012/09/06: new version 1.2.r1299 online!
  Smrender now is able to generate KAP files!
  Bugfix in OSM output (relations had ill format).
  Option -t added.
• 2012/08/28: new version 1.2.r1290 online!
  
  • New option -s implemented which activates a new anti-aliasing technique for improved image quality.
  • New action shape() implemented to allow generation of standard shapes, such as triangles, squares, and circles.
• 2012/08/16: new version 1.2.r1286 online!
  
  • Support for relations now implemented.
  • cat_poly() may now be applied to relations as well.
  • The "window" specification on the command line is now more flexible because it accepts nautical notations for coordinates as well (e.g. 43N30). See documentation for more information.
  • Minor bug fix of refine_poly().
  • The file rulesbig.osm now fits the new rules syntax which was implemented in revision 1264. I forgot to update this file.
• 2012/06/11: new version 1.2.r1269 online!
  Minor typecasting fixes to compile smooth on cygwin.
• 2012/06/11: new version 1.2.r1267 online!
  pchar@libsmfilter.so improved.
  Documentation updated.
• 2012/06/11: new version 1.2.r1264 online!
  
  • Actions totally restructured. The syntax of the actions are now more intuitive and homogeneous. Please note that this new version will thus break your old ruleset! It is not backwards compatible. Please read the documentation of the actions for more details.
  • mmap() support (option -M) is now on by default.y
  • Code restructured in the way that all libgd functions are now found in smrules.c.
  • Header files restructured; smrender.h contains all necessary types for library development, all internal types and declarations are moved to smrender_dev.h.
  • Smrender may now compiled without libgd. In that case it can be used for all kinds of OSM file processing except for rendering itself.
  • HTML-style color definition in actions now optionally support transparency.
  • Bugfix in projection. The previous versions had a slight incorrect projection.
  • Ruleset can now be saved to a well-formed file (see option -R).
• 2012/05/16: new version 1.1.r1240 online!
  It seems that libgd does not support antialiasing on lines with a thickness > 1. There are some reports in the net, also I found some hints that this is documented but I actually could not find it in the libgd documentation. Smrender now disables antialiasing when drawing lines thicker than 1 pixel.
  The new version of smrender supports the option -b which allows to set a background color other than white (which is default).
• 2012/05/05: new version 1.1.r1239 online!
  Bugfix in libsmfilter, memcpy may have caused endless loop.
• 2012/03/25: new version 1.1.r1236 online!
  Bugfix in argument parse for rule-based function arguments.
• 2012/03/22: new version 1.1.r1235 online!
  Fix for segfault on 32 bit Linux. Sorry guys!
• 2012/03/22: new version 1.1.r1234 online!
  This version contains a slightly adapted libsmfilter according to the suggestions from Malcolm H. Thanks!
  Additionally, the package includes the shell script "smfilter2" which is a wrapper script that mimes the behavior of Smfilter with Smrender.
• 2012/03/20: new version 1.1.r1230 online!
  Function refine_poly() added for refinement of polylines. This highly improves the appearance of the map.
• 2012/03/12: new version 1.1.r1225 online!
  gen_layer() is now separate action 'mskfill'.
  new functions set_cw() and set_ccw() available.
  new action 'settags' available.
  (see documentation for details)
• 2012/03/11: new version 1.1.r1223 online!
  the 'draw' action now supports dotted and dashed line styles,
  smrender provides new internal function 'gen_layer()' for filling multi-polygons,
  libsmfilter provides new function 'sounding()' to generate typical circles around depth soundings.
• 2012/03/09: smrender comes now with GNU autotools. This should simplify the compilation and installation process.
  It is tested to compile and run on Debian/Squeeze, FreeBSD 8.x, OpenBSD 5.0, and Mac OS X 10.7.3 (Lion).
• 2012/03/08: documentation updated. There is now a simple example given on how to use smrender.

Documentation

The latest documentation for version 4.0 is found here as HTML page or here as PDF document.

The documentation for version 3.0 is found here as HTML page or here as PDF document.

The old documentation for version r1240 and before are found here (PDF) and here (HTML).

See Also

• Postings on Smrender at the dev's blog
• Libhpxml Project Page
• OpenSeamap

Bugs

Smrender seems not to work in non-memory-mapped mode. As a workaround, simply just always use the option -M.

Author

Smrender is developed and maintained by Bernhard R. Fischer, 2048R/5C5FFD47 <bf@abenteuerland.at>.
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License

Smrender is released under GNU GPLv3.