I thought about how users/editors could get involved in the tile rendering process and when I saw the batik.jar in the tiles@home directory, I had the idea to integrate the rendering process into JOSM. The workflow would be like this:
- download the data into JOSM
- edit the data
- upload the data
- a dialog pops up and asks, if the user wants to render the changes. the user can decide, if she wants to or not.
I don’t know how complicated the tiles@home tool chain is and if it is possible to port that to java but from my point of view, that would be a much cleaner solution. The first step could also be to call the tiles tool chain from JOSM. The new client could be realized as standalone and/or extension for JOSM.
What do you think?
BR
Henrik