This item is on our roadmap for Styler, a web cartography application.
There are many web designers who are used to implementing their designs through CSS. We have found that many of these designers, when dabbling in cartography, balk at the XML-based SLD styling language, but are impatient about using a GUI.
A great solution to this problem, Cascadenik, already exists. Cascadenik is a CSS-like map styling language that can be transformed easily into Mapnik's styling language.
We believe the best way to implement this is as an alternate to the SLD persistence to and from OpenLayers style objects. In this way we could get live editing of Styles within the browser, and servers would not need to understand the CSS language, as the OpenLayers style objects could easily persist themselves as SLD.
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