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What is Kosmos?

April 26, 2017kosmos

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What is Kosmos?

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NOTE: Kosmos is no longer actively maintained, since it has been replaced by a new tool called Maperitive. The new tool is much more flexible and powerful, so the author recommends switching to it. Kosmos is a lightweight OpenStreetMap (OSM) map rendering platform developed by Igor Brejc. It was primarily designed to be used by OSM users on their own computers to: • Render OSM maps interactively • Print OSM maps • Set up a local tile map server • Use their own Map rendering rules or share rules stored in OSM Wiki pages • View your maps on a Java-enabled mobile phone • Perform certain tasks from the command line These are the main differences between Kosmos and Mapnik and Osmarender. Kosmos was designed to be as simple to set up as possible, without losing much of rendering capabilities.