...(forgot to click on the "reply-to-all" button, sorry Frederik)...<br><br>Or you can take a look at Maperitive, it enables you to export bitmaps
both from OSM tiles or using a custom rendering (including one similar
to Mapnik's OSM layer).<br>It uses a local tile caching and download
throttling so it should not overburden the OSM server (no more than a
browser, anyway).<br>
<br><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/breki74/tags/maperitive/" target="_blank">http://www.flickr.com/photos/breki74/tags/maperitive/</a><br><br>p.s. as for export button on the OSM map being intended for manual jobs and not scripting: why not add a CAPTCHA?<br>
<font color="#888888"><br>Igor</font><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Frederik Ramm <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:frederik@remote.org">frederik@remote.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Mikel,<div class="im"><br>
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Mikel Maron wrote:<br>
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Since the export function is linked from the main site, imo we should consider it a core service that should be available at some service level. Personally, we use this feature often through Map Kibera.<br>
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The Mapnik image export works by custom rendering your image, whereas the Osmarender image export, and also anything you do via <a href="http://openstreetmap.gryph.de/bigmap.cgi" target="_blank">openstreetmap.gryph.de/bigmap.cgi</a>, works by stitching together individual tiles. If any of these work for you then they will be more reliable than the image export (the bigmap service will let you create a Perl script which you can then run at any time to update the image).<br>
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Generally, "scraping" tiles is frowned upon, but downloading 20 or 30 pre-rendered tiles will certainly put less load on the tile server than requesting a custom render.<br>
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Bye<br>
Frederik<br>
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